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the same from the National Museum beiug hereby granted. And the 

 Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby authorized to obtain, by 

 exchange or otherwise, such procurable objects from other exhibits iu 

 London as may tend to perfect the permanent fishery exhibit of the 

 United States National Museum. 



Sec. 8. That it shall be the duty of the United States Commissioner 

 of Fish and Fisheries to present to Congress a detailed report of the 

 l>resent condition of the European fisheries, with information as to any 

 methods by which those of the United States can be modified or im- 

 proved, as well as any suggestions he may deem pertinent in regard to 

 iucroasiug the exportation of fishery products from the United States 

 to foreign countries. 



Sec. 4. That the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries 

 is hereby authorized to represent the United States at the exhibition 

 in (juestion, either in person or by a deputy to be appointed by the 

 President of the United States, together with such assistants as he may 

 recommend as useful in carrying out the proposed participation of the 

 United States at the exhibition. 



Sec. 5. That in order to defray the expenses of the collection, prepa- 

 ration and packing of the exhibit authorized, its transfer from and to 

 the United States, its installation and supervision, in London, and such 

 other incidental expenses as may of necessity arise, there is hereby ap- 

 propriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not 

 otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much 

 thereof as may bo rcijuired, to be immediately available, and to be ex- 

 pended by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, un- 

 der the direction and regulations of the Department of State. 



(Approved July 18, 1882. Statutes, xxi', pp. 387-389.) 



WITHDRAWAL OF SMITHSONIAN DEPOSIT. 

 ClXAi". 4(81. An act for the relief of Mary E. Thomson. 



Be it enacted, cCc, That Mary E. Thomson, mother of Passed Assist- 

 ant Paymaster Curtis H. Thomson, United States Navy, deceased, be, 

 and is hereby authorized to aecei)t, first, a portrait, in frame, of Her 

 lio;>al Highness, the Princess of Siam; second, a silver enameled cigar 

 case; liiird, a match-box and tray of Siamese work, the same being 

 pre.-ientc*<l to said Curtis H. Thomson, in his lifetime, by the King of 

 Siam, and now on deposit in the Smithsonian Institution. 



(Approved August 8, 1882. Statutes, xxii, p. 738.) 



