xxxv i acts and resolutions of concirkss. 



historical manuscripts. 



Commission to report on historical value of manuscripts. 

 ETC. : Tliat the Secretary of State, the Librarhiii of Congress, and the 

 Secretary of the Smithsoiiiau Institution, and their successors in office, 

 are Iiereby constituted a commission whose duty it shall be to report to 

 Con,i>ress the character and value of tlie historical and other manu- 

 scripts belonging to the Government of tiie United States, and what 

 method and policy should be pursued in regard to editing and pu1)lish- 

 lug the same, or any of them. 

 (Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved March 3, 1887, chapter 362.) 



MINNEAPOLIS EXPOSITION. 



JOINT RESOLUTION (No.l9.) authorizing the several Executive Departmenr.s of the 

 Goverument to loan to the Minneapolis ludustrial Exposition certain artick's for 

 exhibit. 



Resolvedbif the Senafeand House of Representatives oftheUnited States of 

 America in Congress assembled, That it is desirable, in any way consistent 

 with existing laws and without risk to Government property or expense to 

 the National Treasury, to encourage the effort being made for the open- 

 ing and holding of a grand industrial and educational exposition of the 

 Northwest, at the city of Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, and 

 the interests of the whole northwestern section of our country demand 

 it be made an uuqualitied success; and it be, and is hereby, approved 

 that the heads of the several Executive Departments shall, in whatever 

 respects they may in their judgment see convenient and proper, loan 

 any articles or material suitable to such purpose: Provided, That such 

 loan be made entirely on the responsibility of said Minneapolis Indus- 

 trial Exposition, and shall not be of material needed for use in, either 

 Department, and shall not in any way interrupt the daily routine of 

 duty or order in any branch of the Government, and shall be returned 

 to the proper Department, in good order, within one month after the 

 close of the exposition : And provided further, That before any such loan 

 shall be made the proper head of the Department shall require and re- 

 ceive a good and sufficient bond, by or in behalf of such exposition, for 

 the safe return thereof as aforesaid,and to indemnify and save harmless 

 the Government of the United States, or any Department thereof, from 

 any liability or expense on account thereof, or ou account of this reso- 

 lution. 



Approved, March 3, 1887. 



[Fil'tieth Congress, first session, 1887-88.] 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



.JOINT RESOLUTION (No. 4.) appointing Andrew D. White a member of the Board 

 of Regents of the Smithsonian Institntion. 



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

 of America in Congress assembled. That the existing vacancy in the 

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

 than members of Congress," shall be filled by the appointment of An- 

 drew D. White, of the State of New Vork, in place of Asa Gray, de- 

 ceased. 



(Approvi'd, February 15, 1888.) 



