FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Congress for the government of said World's Columbian Ex-

Proviso.

position. Any member of the board may be removed at any

time, by the Governor for cause. Any vacancy which may

Vacancy.

occur in the membership if said board shall be filled by the

Governor.

SEC. 4. The members of the board appointed under this

act shall not be entitled to any compensation for their ser-

No com-

vices out of the State Treasury, except their expenses for

pensation

each day they are absent from their homes on the business

of said board.

SEC. 5. The Board of World's Pair Managers is authorized

and directed to appoint an executive commissioner and

Appoint-

such other clerical assistants as, they may deem necessary

ments

and to fix their salaries subject to the approval of the Gover-

nor, which shall be payable monthly, out of the appropria-

tion hereinafter made, and said executive commissioners

shall be authorized and required to assume and exercise,

subject to the supervision of said board all such execution

powers and functions as may be necessary to secure a com-

plete and creditable display of the interests of the State at

the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and as the exec-

utive agent of said board he shall have personal charge of

the solicitation, collection, transportation arrangement, and

exhibition of the objects sent under the authority of the

State to the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and to

such objects sent by individual citizens of the State as may

be by them, placed in his charge. He shall make a report

to the board monthly and at such other times as the board

may request, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the

board.

SEC. 6. The said board shall have charge of the interest

of the State and its citizens in the preparation and exhibi-

Duty of

tion at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, of the

board

natural and industrial products of the State, and of objects

illustrating its history, progress, moral and material wel-

fare and future development, and in all other matters relat-

ing to the said World's Columbian Exposition ; it shall com-

municate with the officers of and obtain and disseminate

through the State all necessary information regarding said

exposition and in general have and exercise full authority

in relation to the participation of the State of Maryland

and its citizens in the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

SEC. 7. The said board shall make a report of its pro-

ceedings and expenditures from time to time to the Gov-

Repeal

ernor, and at any time upon his written request to, be by

him transmitted to the legislature, together with such sug-