press the traffic in intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, six thousand dollars. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. * NATIONAL CEMETERIES. (Bringing home the remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees of the Army who die abroad, including the remains of soldiers who die on transports. See p. 77.) UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Incidental ex INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, DISTRICT OF ALASKA: For furni- Alaska. ture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental ex- penses. penses, for the offices of the marshals and attorneys, six thousand dollars. penses. TRAVELING EXPENSES, DISTRICT OF ALASKA: For the Traveling exactual and necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five thousand dollars. (Expenses of the district court of Alaska. See p. 204.) * Miscellaneous expenses. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, five hundred and sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That in Alaska. so far as it may be deemed necessary by the AttorneyGeneral, this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the district of Alaska. Proviso. Fisheries Con FISHERIES CONVENTION, UNITED STATES AND CANADA: Canadian For the payment of the compensation of a commissioner vention. Commissionon the part of the United States under the convention ers, etc., between the United States and Great Britain concerning der. 12607-09-2 un the fisheries in waters contiguous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada, signed at Washington on April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, and of the share of the United States of the expenses that may be incurred in putting into operation and carrying out the convention during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. kon-Pacific Ex exposition may free. ted. ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION. Alaska Yu- SEC. 10. That all articles that shall be imported from position. foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at Articles for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, to be held at be imported Seattle, State of Washington, in the year nineteen hundred and nine, upon which there shall be a tariff or cus toms duty shall be admitted free of the payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Sales permit- Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time during the exposition to sell for delivery at the close thereof any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition buildings or on the grounds, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: Provided, That all such articles when sold or withdrawn cles sold, etc. for consumption or use in the United States shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of withdrawal; and on articles which shall have suffered diminution or deterioration from incidental handling and necessary exposure the duty, if paid, shall be assessed according to the ap praised value at the time of withdrawal for consumption or use, and the penalties prescribed by law shall be enforced against any person guilty of any illegal sale, use or withdrawal. Proviso. Duty on arti Smithsonian and National SEC. 11. That there shall be exhibited at said ExposiMuseum. tion by the Government of the United States from the Exhibit by. Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum such articles and material of an historical nature as will impart a knowledge of our national history, especially that of Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands and that part of the United States west of the Rocky Mountains. Department There shall be exhibited from the Executive Depart exhibit. Character. ments of the United States such exhibits as will illustrate their principal administrative functions and their edu cational value in connection with the development of commerce in the countries bordering upon the Pacific Ocean; the preservation of forests; the reclamation and irrigation of arid and semiarid lands; the improving and enlarging of transportation facilities and the safeguards of navigation; and the economic value of the investiga tions and operations of the Government with reference to public health, geology, experiment stations, coast and geodetic survey, and public roads. To secure a Government Duties. complete and harmonious arrangement of such Government exhibit a United States Government board of man- board of managers is hereby authorized to be appointed to be charged agers. with the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibition and return of such articles and materials as the heads of the several Departments, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Superintendent of the National Museum respectively decide shall be embraced in the Government exhibit herein authorized. The President of the United States may also designate additional articles of peculiar interest for exhibition in connection with the said Government exhibit. Said Government board of managers shall be Composition. composed of three persons now in the employ of the Government and shall be appointed by the President, one of whom shall be designated by the President as chairman of the said board and one as secretary and disbursing officer. The members of said Government board, with other officers and employees of the Government who may Allowances. be detailed to assist them, including officers of the Army and Navy, shall receive no compensation in addition to their regular salaries, but they shall be allowed their actual and necessary traveling expenses, together with a per diem in lieu of subsistence, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, while necessarily absent from their homes engaged upon the business of the board. Officers of the Army and Navy shall receive said allowance in lieu of the subsistence and mileage now allowed by law; and the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy may, in their discretion, detail retired Army or Navy officers for such duty. Any provision of law which may prohibit the detail of persons in the employ of the United States to other service than that which they customarily perform shall not apply to persons detailed for duty in connection with said Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Employees of the board not otherwise employed by the Pay of emGovernment shall be entitled to such compensation as the" board may determine, and such employees may be selected and appointed by said board. The disbursing officer Disbursing shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine for the faithful performance of his duties, said bond to be approved by said Secretary. The Secretary of the Treasury shall advance to said officer from time to time, under such regulations as he may prescribe, a sum of money from the appropriation for the Government exhibit herein authorized, not exceeding at any one time three-fourths of the penalty of his bond, to enable him to pay the expenses of said exhibit as authorized by the United States Government board herein created. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby author Details permitted. ployees. officer. Life-saving exhibit. rium. Proviso. Limit of expenses. tion. Alaska and Hawaii. from. ized and directed to place on exhibition, in connection with the exhibit of his Department, upon such grounds as shall be allotted for this purpose, one of the lifesaving stations authorized to be constructed on the Pacific coast of the United States by existing law, and to cause the same to be fully equipped with all apparatus, furni ture, and appliances now in use in life-saving stations in Fish aqua-the United States. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized and directed to place on exhibition, in connection with the exhibit of his Department, in such building or aquarium as shall be allotted for this purpose, a complete exhibit of the fish and fisheries of the United States, paying special attention to the fish and fisheries of the Pacific Ocean, with a view to demonstrating, in the fullest manner possible, the economic value of such fish and fisheries: Provided, That the cost of said exhibit herein authorized, including the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of the articles and materials so exhibited, shall not exceed the sum of Appropria-two hundred thousand dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 12. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby Exhibits authorized and directed to aid the people of the district of Alaska and of the Territory of Hawaii in providing and maintaining appropriate and creditable exhibits of the products and resources of Alaska and Hawaii at the said Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and for that purpose he is authorized to appoint one or more persons to supervise the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of such articles as may be exhibited from said Territories at said exposition: Provided, That the total expenditure for said exhibit for said district of Alaska on the part of the Government, including such selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of the arAppropria- ticles so exhibited, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any Total for money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: And provided further, That the total expenditure for said exhibit for the Territory of Hawaii on the part of the Government, including such selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safekeeping, exhibition, and return of the articles so exhibited shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Provisos. Limit of expenses. tion. Hawaiian hibit. ex Philippine Islands. SEC. 13. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to aid the people of the Philippine hibit from. Islands in providing and maintaining an appropriate Aid to ex Proviso. Limit of ex and creditable exhibit of the products and resources of Appropria tion. Government exhibit ized. Preparation of plans, etc. SEC. 14. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause suitable buildings to be erected on the site of said Alaska- Buildings, Yukon-Pacific Exposition for said Government exhibit, etc., author including an irrigation and biograph building; also a fisheries building complete, with mechanical apparatus; also buildings, for the exhibits of the district of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands; also buildings for such other purposes in connection with the exhibits herein authorized as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury may be necessary. Said buildSaid buildings shall be erected from plans prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to contract for said buildings in the same manner and under the same regulations as for other public buildings of the United States, but the contract for said buildings, including the preparation of ground there for and the approaches thereto, and the interior and exterior decorative wiring and lighting thereof shall not exceed the sum of Appropriatwo hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which sum or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. The Secretary of the Treasury is author-close of expost ized and required to dispose of said buildings, or the ma- tion. terials composing the same, at the close of the exposition, giving preference to the State of Washington or to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition corporation or to the city of Seattle to purchase the same at an appraised value to be ascertained in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine. tion. Disposal at space in Alas buildings. SEC. 15. That the allotment of space for exhibitors in Allotment of the building or buildings erected under authority of this ka, II a wail, Act for the use of the district of Alaska, the Territory of and Philippine Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands shall be done and performed without charge to exhibitors by the Government board created by this Act. |