L ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



Sec. 5. The United States shall not be liable on account of said 

 exposition for any expense incident to, or growing out of same, except 

 for the construction of the building or buildings hereinbefore provided 

 for, and for the purpose of paying the expense of transportation, care 

 and custody of exhibits by the Government, and the maintenance of 

 the said building or buildings, and the safe return of articles belonging 

 to the said Government exhibit, and other contingent expenses to be 

 approved by the Secretary of the Treasury upon itemized accounts and 

 vouchers, and the total cost of said building or buildings shall not 

 exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars; nor shall the expenses of 

 said Government exhibit for each and every purpose connected there- 

 with, including the transportation of same to Omaha and from Omaha 

 to Washington, exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dol- 

 lars, amounting in all to not exceeding the sum of two hundred thou- 

 sand dollars: Provided, That no liability against the Government shall 

 be incurred, and no expenditure of money under this Act shall be 

 made, until the officers of said exposition shall have furnished the 

 Secretary of the Treasury proofs to his satisfaction that there has been 

 obtained by said exposition corporation subscriptions of stock in good 

 faith, contributions, donations, or appropriations from all sources for 

 the purposes of said exposition a sum aggregating not less than two 

 hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 



Sec. G. That the commission appointed under this Act shall not be 

 entitled to any compensation for their services out of the Treasury of 

 the United States, except their actual expenses for transportation and 

 a reasonable sum to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury for sub- 

 sistence for each day they are necessarily absent from home on the 

 business of said commission. The officers of said commission shall 

 receive such compensation as may be fixed by said commission, subject 

 to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, which shall be paid 

 out of the sums appropriated by Congress in aid of such exposition. 



Sec. 7. That medals ? with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscrip- 

 tions commemorative of said transmississippi and international exposi- 

 tion and of the awards to be made to the exhibitors thereat, shall be 

 prepared at some mint of the United States, for the board of directors 

 thereof, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of the coin- 

 age Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, upon the payment of a 

 sum not less than the cost thereof; and all the provisions, whether 

 penal or otherwise, of said coinage Act against the counterfeiting or 

 imitating of coins of the Uuited States, shall apply to the medals 

 struck and issued under this Act. 



Sec. 8. That the United States shall not in any manner, nor under 

 and circunstances, be liable for any of the acts, doings, proceedings, or 

 representations of said Transmississippi and International Exposition 

 Association, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or any of them, 

 or for service, salaries, labor, or wages of said officers, agents, serv- 



