Chapter 481.

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CHAP. 481.— Joint Resolution Authorizing the transfer of the Government exhibit, or such portion thereof as the President may determine is advisable, now at the Panama-California International Exposition at San Diego, California, to the Mississippi Centennial Exposition at Gulfport, Mississippi. September 8, 1916.[[H. J. Res. 252](/us/bill/64/hjres/252).][[Pub. Res., No. 38](/us/bill/64/pubres/38).] Mississippi Centennial Exposition.Preamble.Whereas there is to be held at Gulfport, Mississippi, beginning in December, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and ending in March, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the Mississippi Centennial Exposition to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Mississippi into the Union; and Whereas there is now a Government exhibit at the Panama-California International Exposition at San Diego, California, which exposition will close December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen:

Therefore be it *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Transfer of Government exhibit from Panama-California Exposition to. That the said Government exhibit at the Panama-California International Exposition, or such portion thereof as may be determined by the President as advisable, be transferred at the close of the Panama-California International Exposition to the Mississippi Centennial Exposition at Gulfport,Maintenance.

Mississippi, and to be maintained during the continuance of the said Mississippi Centennial Exposition and until not later than April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for the purposes Expenses authorized.herein named there is hereby authorized to be expended the sum of $75,000, or so much thereof as is necessary to cover the expense of transferring and maintaining the said exhibit, or such part thereof as may be determined by the President as available. Sec. 2. Continuance of Government exhibit board, etc.*Ante*, p. 2.

That all laws or parts of laws relating to said Government exhibit and constituting a Government Exhibit Board and authorizing the detail of civilians and Army and Navy officers of the United States in connection with the Government exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and which were continued and made applicable by Act of Congress, December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, so far as the same could be made applicable, to the Panama-California International Exposition at San Diego, California, is hereby continued and made applicable, so far as the same may be made applicable, to the Mississippi Centennial Exposition, at Gulfport, Mississippi, during its said continuance. 855 Sec. 3.

That nothing herein contained shall prevent the GovernmentRearrangement, etc., of exhibit before transfer. Exhibit Board in their discretion, with the approval of the President, from transferring said Government exhibit at the close of the Panama-California International Exposition from San Diego to some other point in the United States, if desirable, for being rearranged, repaired, or added to before transferring said exhibit to the Mississippi Centennial Exposition at Gulfport.

Sec. 4. That the Government of the United States does not becomeNonliability of United States declared. responsible in any manner for any bond, debt, contract, expenditure, expense, or liability of the said Mississippi Centennial Exposition, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or incident to or growing out of the said exposition beyond such appropriation as is necessary to cover the expense of transferring and maintaining the said exhibit of such portion thereof as may be determined by the President as advisable.

Approved, September 8, 1916. PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES *Passed at the second session, which, was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December, 1916, and was adjourned without day on Sunday, the fourth day of March, 1917.* Woodrow Wilson, President; Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President; Willard Saulsbury, President of the Senate *pro tempore*; Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives.