CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION AT CINCINNATI. 
871 
That to enable the several Executive Departments of Government, the Department 
of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution, including the National Museum and 
the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, to participate in said exposition, to be held as 
aforesaid, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- 
wise appropriated, $147,750, apportioned as follows : 
For the War Department, $7,150. 
For the Navy Department, $15,000. 
For the State Department, $2,500. 
For the Treasury Department, $7,500. 
For the Interior Department, $36,100. 
For the Department of Agriculture, $20,000. 
For the Post-Office Department, $5,000. 
For the Department of Justice, $2,000. 
For the Smithsonian Institution, including the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 
$50,000. 
For the expenses of the Committee of Congress, $2,500. 
That the President may, if in his judgment it shall be deemed necessary and 
expedient in order to secure the best results with greatest economy, transfer a part of 
the fund hereby apportioned to one Department or bureau to another Department or 
bureau. The term bureau wherever used herein shall be construed to include the 
Agricultural Department, the Smithsonian Institution, and Commission of Fish and 
Fisheries. 
That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to detail an officer of 
the Pay Department of the Army or Navy to disburse the fund appropriated by 
this act. 
The payments on account of expenses incurred in carrying out and into effect the 
provisions hereof shall be made on itemized vouchers approved by the representative 
of the Department incurring the liability and a person to be designated by the Presi- 
dent to make final audit of said accounts : Provided , That payment of the expenses 
incurred by the committee of Congress shall be made on vouchers approved by the 
chairman of said committee. 
That the head of each of said Executive Departments and of the Department of 
Agriculture, Smithsonian Institution, and Commission of Fish and Fisheries shall, 
from among the officers or employes thereof, appoint a suitable person to act as repre- 
sentative of such Department or bureau, and said representative shall, under the 
direction and control of the head of the Department or bureau, supervise the prepa- 
ration and conduct of the exhibits herein provided for. 
That no officer or employ 6 appointed as aforesaid shall be paid extra or additional 
compensation by reason of services rendered in virtue of such employment ; but 
nothing herein shall be so construed as to prevent the payment of the just and reason- 
able expenses of any committee, officer, or employ^ appointed or employed under or 
by virtue of the provisions of this act. 
That all articles imported from the Republic of Mexico or the Dominion of Canada 
for the purpose of being exhibited at said exposition shall be admitted free of duty, 
subject, however, to such conditions and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury 
may impose and prescribe. 
Additional explanatory legislation . — The decision on the part of the 
Auditor that the law, as enacted, did not give authority for the pur- 
chase of new material by the Departments or bureaus to complete ex- 
hibits, and the fact that he held that only such collections or materials 
as were then on baud could legitimately be utilized for exhibition pur- 
poses, led to the passage by Congress of supplementary legislation 
declaring the meaning of the previous act and authorizing the pur- 
chase of suitable material, etc. 
