ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. 



(In contiuuation from previous reports.) 



[Forty-ninth Congress, first session, ISSo-'d'B. ] 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



JOINT RESOLUTION (No. 2) filliuj; existing vacancies in tlie Boarfl of Regents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



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

 of America in Co )igress assembled, That the existing' vacancies in the 

 Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institntion of the class "other 

 tlian Members of Congress," shall be tilled by the re-appoiutiuent of 

 John Maclean, of New Jersey; Asa Gray, of Massachusetts; Henry 

 Coppee, of Pennsylvania, and the appointment of Montgomery C. Meigs, 

 of the city of Washington, vice William T. Sherman, whose term has 

 expired and who is no longer a citizen of Washington. 



(Approved, December 26, 1885. Forty-ninth Congress, first session. 

 Statutes, 1885-'8C.) 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 



Naval observatory: For payment to Smithsonian Institution for 

 freight on observatory publications sent to foreign countries, one hun- 

 dred and thirty-six dollars. 



(Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act. Approved 

 July 31, 188G, chapter 827.) 



War department. — For the trausportatiou of reports and maps to 

 foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred 

 dollars. 



(Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved August 4, 1886, chapter 

 902.) 



International exchanges, Smithsonian Institution: For ex- 

 penses of the system of international exchanges between the United 

 States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary em- 

 ployes, ten thousand dollars. 



(Sundry civil ai)propriation act. Approved August 4, 1886, chapter 

 902.) 



north AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



North American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution: For 

 the purpose of continuing ethnological researches among the American 

 H. Mis. 142 III xxxui 



