XLVI ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



of one member to be detailed by the bead of each executive department, 

 one by the head of the Smithsonian Institution and l^ational Museum, 

 and one by the head of the United States Fish Commission; and the 

 President shall name one of said persons so detailed as chairman ; and 

 the members of said board shall have no compensation in addition to 

 their regular salary, and their actual necessary expenses only shall be 

 paid out of the sum hereinafter appropriated. 



Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a suitable 

 building- or buildings to be erected on the site selected for the Ten- 

 nessee Centennial Exposition for the Government exhibit, and he is 

 hereby authorized and directed to contract therefor, in the same man- 

 ner and under the same regulations as for other public buildings of the 

 United States; but the contract for said building or buildings shall not 

 exceed the sum of thirty thousand dollars; and there is hereby appro- 

 priated for said building or buildings, out of any money in the Treas- 

 ury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand dollars. 

 The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and required to dispose of 

 such building or buildings, or the material composing the same, at the 

 close of the exposition, giving i)reference to the city of Nashville or to 

 the said Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company to purchase the 

 same at an appraised value, to be ascertained in such manner as he 

 may determine, and whatever sum may be realized on sale of said 

 building shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. 



Sec. 3. That for the purpose of paying the expenses of the selection, 

 purchase, preparation, transportation, installation, care, and return of 

 said Government exhibit, and for the employment of proper jsersons as 

 officers and assistants by the board of management created by this act 

 and for their expenses, and for the maintenance of the building here- 

 inbefore provided for, and for other contingent expenses incidental to 

 the Government exhibit, to be approved by the chairman of the board 

 of management and by the Secretary of the Treasury upon itemized 

 accounts and vouchers, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money 

 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred 

 thousand dollars, or so much thereof as maj^ be necessary, to be dis- 

 bursed by the board of management hereinbefore created, of which not 

 exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars shall be expended for cler- 

 ical service. 



Sec. 4. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign coun- 

 tries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition, upon which 

 there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall be admitted free of pay- 

 ment of duty, customs fees or charges, under such regulations as the 

 Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any 

 time during the exhibition to sell, for delivery at the close of the expo- 

 sition, any goods or i)roperty imported for and actually on exhibition 

 in the exj)osition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regula- 

 tions for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import 



