ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. LIII 



general direction of the President to make all needful rules and reg- 

 ulations in reference to the contributions from the United States, 

 subject to the approval of the President, and to control the expend- 

 itures incident to and necessary for the proper installation and exhibit 

 thereof; and the President, by and with the advice and consent of 

 the Senate, shall also appoint an assistant commissioner-general, who 

 shall assist and act under the direction of the commissioner-geueral, 

 and shall perform the duties of the commissioner-general in case of 

 his death, disability, or temporary absence; and a secretary r who 

 shall act as disbursing agent and sball perform such duties as may 

 be assigned to him by the commissioner general, shall render his 

 accounts quarterly to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, 

 and shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may 

 require. The President, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 Senate, shall also appoint twelve commissioners, who shall be subject 

 to the direction and control of the commissioner-general and perform 

 from time to time such service as he shall require. The commissioner- 

 general shall employ such number of experts as may be needed, hav- 

 ing special attainments in regard to the subjects of the group or 

 groups in said exposition to which they may be assigned, respectively, 

 and he may employ from time to time such other experts as he may 

 deem necessary in the preparation and installation of such exhibits. 

 The commissioner-general shall be paid a salary of eight thousand 

 dollars per annum; the assistant commissioner-general a salary of six 

 thousand dollars per annum; and the secretary a salary of four thou- 

 sand five hundred dollars per annum ; which said sums shall be in lieu 

 of all personal expenses other than actual traveling expenses while 

 engaged in exposition work; and the terms of service of the commis- 

 sioner-general, assistant commissioner-general, and secretary shall not 

 exceed three years. The commissioners herein provided for shall serve 

 during the entire calendar year nineteen hundred, and they shall be 

 paid for such service three thousand dollars each, which payments shall 

 be in full for all compensation and personal and traveling expenses. 

 The necessary expenses herein authorized, and expenses for the j>roper 

 installation and care of exhibits, together with all other expenses that 

 may be authorized by the commissioner-general incident to the partici- 

 pation of the United States in said exposition, are hereby limited to 

 the sum of not exceeding six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, includ- 

 ing not exceeding eighty-five thousand dollars for clerk hire in the 

 United States and in Paris. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby 

 authorized to prepare suitable exhibits of agricultural products of the 

 States and Territories of the United States, including those mentioned 

 in groups seven, eight, and ten of the plan of said exposition, and 

 shall exhibit the same under the direction and control of the commis- 

 sioner-general, the total expenses of the said exhibits not to exceed in 

 the aggregate seventy-five thousand dollars, to be paid out of the 



