Chapter 321. making an appropriation to enable the several Executive Departments of the Government and the Bureau of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution, including the National Museum and Commission of Fish and Fisheries, to participate in the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States,
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CHAP. 321.— An Act making an appropriation to enable the several Executive Departments of the Government and the Bureau of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution, including the National Museum and Commission of Fish and Fisheries, to participate in the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, to be held at Cincinnati. Ohio, from July fourth to October twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.May 28, 1888. Whereas, the States which comprise the Northwest Territory andPreamble. the adjacent States will hold at Cincinnati, Ohio, from July fourth to October twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, a centennial exposition commemorative of the organization of the Northwest Territory, under the ordinance of seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, in which exposition all the States and Territories of the United States and the General Government have been invited to participate, the object being in said exposition to present a panorama of the nation’s resources and present state of progressive development, by an exhibition of the products of agriculture, of the various industries and fine arts: also the results of advancement made in the sciences: the whole illustrating the opportunities secured to and the possibilities which wait upon the citizens of this Republic; and Whereas the citizens of the Ohio Valley and the several States adjacent thereto have made suitable and adequate preparation and arrangements for holding said exposition, and are desirous—and it being lit and proper—that the several Executive Departments of the Government, the Department of Agriculture, the Smithsonian Institution. including the National Museum and Commission of Fish and Fisheries, should participate in said exhibition:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Executive Departments to be represented at Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States., That the head of each of the several Executive Departments of the Government, the Commissioner of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution, including the National Museum, and Commission of Fish and Fisheries, under the direction of the President of the United States, be. and they are hereby, authorized and directed to prepare and make*Post*, p. 626. suitable exhibits at the said Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, to be held at Cincinnati, beginning on the fourth of July awl closing October twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
That there shall be appointed a Committee of Congress composedCommittee of Congress. of ten members, five to be appointed by the President of the Senate and five by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Said Committee is authorized and directed to visit said exposition and make such-report to Congress in that behalf as they may deem needful and proper: *Provided*, That the President may in the exercise of*Proviso*.Documents, etc., may be exhibited at Marietta, Ohio. his discretion allow such documents, and exhibits as relate to early settlement at Marietta, Ohio, and the establishment of civil government in the territory northwest of the Ohio river, to be taken to Marietta and exhibited during the time from July fifteenth to nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, inclusive, under such restrictions and custody as he may direct.
That to enable the several Executive Departments of the Government, the Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution. including the National Museum, and the Commission of Fish awl Fisheries, to participate in said exposition, to be held as aforesaid, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the TreasuryAppropriation. not otherwise appropriated, one hundred and forty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, apportioned as follows: For the War Department, seven thousand one hundred and fiftyDistribution. dollars.
For the Navy Department, fifteen thousand dollars. For the State Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the Treasury Department, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 160FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 321, 336. 1888. For the Interior Department, thirty-six thousand one hundred dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, twenty thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, five thousand dollars. For the Department of Justice, two thousand dollars. For the Smithsonian Institution, including the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of the Committee of Congress two thousand five hundred dollars. That the President may, if in his judgment it shall be deemed necessaryTransfer of funds. 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 Disbursing officer.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 andAccounts. 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 President to make final *Proviso*.Expenses of Congressional Committee.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 theDepartmental, etc., representatives.
Department of Agriculture, Smithsonian Institution and Commission of Fish and Fisheries shall, from among the officers or employees thereof, appoint a suitable person to act as representative of such Department or bureau, and said representative shall, under the direction and control of the head of the Department or bureau, supervise the preparation and conduct of the exhibits herein provided for. That no officer or employee appointed as aforesaid shall be paidNot to receive extra pay. 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 reasonable expenses of any committee, officer, or employee appointed or employed under and by virtue of the provisions of this act.
That all articles imported from the Republic of Mexico or the DominionArticles from Mexico or Canada to be admitted free of duty. 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. Approved, May 28, 1888.