ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. 



(In contiuiiatiou from previous reports.) 



[Fiftieth Congress, seeond s(»ssioi), lH88-'8i). ] 

 INTERNATIONAL KXCHANGES. 



International Exchanges — Smithsonian Institu'J'ion : Forex- 

 l)eiises of tlie system of iuteruational excban.ijes betweeu the United 

 States and foreign conntries, under tlie direction of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, including- salaries or compensation of all necessary em- 

 l)loyees, tifteen thousand dollars. 



(Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved March 2, 1SS9. Statutes, 

 XXV, p. 952.) 



IS'aval 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. Api)roved 

 February 20, 1889. Statutes, xxv, p. 733.) 



United States Patent Office: For purchase of books, and ex- 

 penses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent 

 Oftice to foreign Governments, three tiiousand dollars. 



(Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriations act. Approved 

 February 26, 1889. Statutes, xxv, p. 737.) 



War Department: For the transportation of reports and maps to 

 foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred 

 dollars. 



(Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved March 2, 1889. Statutes 

 xxv, p. 970.) 



United States Geological Survey : For the purchase of nec- 

 essary books for the library, and the payment for the transmission of 

 ])ublic documents through the Smithsonian exchange, tive thousand 

 dollars; in all four hundred and three thousand dollars. 



(Sundry civil ai)[)ropriation act. Approved March 2. 1889. Statutes 

 xxv, p. 9G0.) 



NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



For the purpose of continuing ethnological researches among the 

 American Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 

 employees, forty thousand (lollars. 



(Sundry civil apju-opriatioii act. Apj)roved March 2, 1889. Statutes 

 xxv, p. 952.) 



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