116 APPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



and except for books and documents published or circulated by order of 

 Congress, or official matter emanating from any of the departments of 

 the government or from the Smithsonian Institution, or which is not 

 declared non-mailable under the provision of section thirty-eight hun- 

 dred and ninety-three of the Eevised Statutes as amended by the act of 

 July twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, or matter appertaining 

 to lotteries, gift concerts, or fraudulent schemes or devices. 



(Statutes of the United States, Forty-fifth Congress, third session, 

 chapter 180, page 360.) 



AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for tho 

 fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other pur- 

 poses. 



* * * And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, fossils, and ob- 

 jects of natural history, archaeology, and ethnology, made by the Coast 

 and Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for 

 the Government of the United States when no longer needed for inves- 

 tigations in progress shall be deposited in the National Museum. 



(Statutes of the United States, Forty-fifth Congress, third session, 

 chapter 182, page 394.) 



Forty- sixth Congress, Second Session, 1879-'80. 



JOINT RESOLUTION filling existing vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Resolved by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That the existing vacancies in the 

 Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than 

 members of Congress, shall be filled by the reappointment of Asa Gray. 

 of Massachusetts, Henry Coppee, of Pennsylvania, John Maclean, of 

 New Jersey, and Peter Parker, of the city of Washington, whose terms 

 have expired. (Public Resolution No. 2. Statutes of the United States, 

 Forty-sixth Congress, second session, p. 299.) 



Approved, December 19, 1879. 



AN ACT for i lie election of a bronze statue of Joseph Henry, late Secretary of the 



Smi! hsonian Instil ution. 



Be it enacted by (he Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution be, and are hereby authorized to contract with W. 

 W. Story, sculptor, for a statue in bronze of Joseph Henry, late Secre- 

 tary of the Smithsonian Institution, to be erected upon the grounds of 

 said I nsi it nt ion; and for this purpose, and for the entire expense of the 

 foundation and pedestal of the monument, the sum of fifteen thousand 

 dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not 

 Otherwise appropriated. 



Approved, June 1, 1880. 



(Statutes of the United States, Forty-sixth Congress, second session, 

 chapter 110, page 154.) 



