ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. XXXVIE 



>I()RTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



For North American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institntion, forty-nine 

 dollars and nine cents. 



(Urgent deficiency act. Approved March 30, 1888, chapter 47.1 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Chap. 124. — AN ACT to purchase of the widow and children of the late General 

 James Shields certain swords. 



Whereas the State of Illinois and the State of South Carolina, after 

 the war with Mexico, each presented to the late General James Shields^ 

 a sword, in consideration of gallant and meritorious services rendered 

 by him in said war ; and 



Whereas he has left surviving him a widow and three minor children^ 

 with but limited means of support, and said swords, though costly and 

 valuable, can not be divided and apportioned between said children, 

 and their value is needed for the education and support of said children : 

 Therefore, 



Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, 

 and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase of said widow and 

 children said swords, at their actual cost, not to exceed the sum of ten 

 thousand dollars, to be paid for out of any money in the Treasury not 

 otherwise appropriated, and when so purchased the same to be depos- 

 ited witli the other military archives of the nation, in some public place 

 at the National Museum. 



(Approved, April 19, 1888, chapter 124.) 



CINCINNATI EXPOSITION. 



AN ACT making an appropriation to enable the several Executive Departments of 

 the Government and the Bureau of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution, 

 including the National Museum and Commission of Fish and Fisheries to partici- 

 pate in the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, to bo held 

 at Cincinnati, Ohio, from July fourth to October twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred 

 and eighty-eight. 



Whereas the States which comprise the Northwest Territory and the 

 adjacent States will hold at Cincinnati, Ohio, from July fourth to Octo- 

 ber twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, a centennial 

 exposition commemorative of the organization of the Northwest Terri- 

 tory, under the ordinance of seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, in 

 which exposition all the States and Territories of the United States and 

 the General Government have been invited to participate, the object 

 being in said exposition to present a panorama of the nation's resources 

 and present state of progressive development by an exhibition of the 

 products of agriculture, of the various industries and fine arts ; also the 

 results of advancement made in the sciences ; the whole illustrating the 

 opportunities secured to and the possibilities which wait upon the citi- 

 zens of this Republic ; and 



Whereas the citizens of the Ohio Valley and the several States acija. 

 cent thereto have made suitable and adequate preparation and arrange- 

 ments for holding said exposition, andare desirous — and it being fit and 

 proper — that the several Executive Departments of the Government, 

 the Department of Agriculture, the Smithsonian Institution, including 

 the National Museum and Commission of Fish and Fisheries, should 

 participate in said exhibition : Therefore, 



