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§ 3. The Governor shall forthwith appoint some suitable and competent 

 person who is a resident of the State, to be secretary and another to be 

 chief executive officer of the board of general managers of the State, 

 who shall be removable at the pleasure of the Governor. They shall each 

 receive such annual salary as shall be fixed by the Governor, not exceed- 

 ing $3,000 for the secretary, or |5,000 for the chief executive officer. 

 Such salaries shall not be paid for more than two years. They shall be 

 subject to the direction of the general managers of the State, and per- 

 form such duties as they shall prescribe. The said chief executive officer 

 shall sit as a member of the said board, but not authorized to vote except 

 in case of a tie when he shall have the casting vote. 



§ 4. The general managers of the State shall, immediately after their 

 appointment, and upon the call of the Governor, meet at the Capitol in the 

 city of Albany and organize as a board by the election of a president and 

 a vice-president. Three members of the board shall be a quorum for the 

 transaction of business. The board may make rules and regulations for 

 its government and for the government of the district boards and of the 

 chief executive officer. But such rules and regulations shall not conflict 

 with the provifcions of the act of Congress hereinbefore referred to, or 

 the regulations adopted thereunder, or with the rules and regulations 

 adopted by the World's Columbian Commission. The Superintendent of 

 Public Buildings shall provide the board of general managers with suit- 

 able furnished rooms for their use as such board in the Capitol. The 

 board of general managers shall appoint a board of women managers of 

 such number, and to perform such duties as may be prescribed by the 

 board of general managers. The members of all boards appointed under 

 this act shall serve without compensation, but their actual, necessary 

 expenses, while in the actual discharge of their duties, shall be allowed 

 and paid to them out of any sums appropriated therefor, upon the audit 

 of the Comptroller. No member of any such board, nor such executive 

 officer, shall be personally liable for any debt or obligation created ot 

 incuri'ed by him as such commissioner, or such officer, or by such board, 

 or any officer thereof. 



§ 5. The board of general managers shall make a report of its proceed- 

 ings from time to time to the Governor, and at any time, upon his writter 

 request, r'^all make such a report, to be by him transmitted to the Legis- 

 lature, with such suggestions as he may deem important, for a complete 

 and creditable representation of the State at such exposition. Immedi- 

 ately after the formal opening of the exposition an account of all expendi- 

 tures made and debts incurred, showing the items, the amounts thereof, 

 to whom paid or with whom contracted, and for what purpose, certified 



