ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. 



(lu coutiuuatiou from previous reports.) 



[Forty-niuth C'oiifjjress, first session, ISSa-'Hfi. ] 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITTTTION. 



JOINT RESOLUTION (No. '2) filliui- existii)>r vacauc.ies in tlie Hoard of Hej-ieiits of 

 the Siuithsoniau Institution. 



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

 of Ameriea in Congress assemljled, That the existiug" vacancies in the 

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

 than Members of Congress," sliall be filled by the re-ai)pointmeut of 

 Joiin Maclean, of J^ew Jersey; Asa Gray, of Massachusetts; Henry 

 Coppee, of Pennsylvania, and the ap;)ointinent of Montgomery C. Meigs, 

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

 expiretl and who is no longer a citizen of VV^ashington. 



(Approved, December 2(>, 1885. Forty-ninth Congress, first session. 

 Statutes, 1885-'8G,) 



INTERNATIONAL KXCHANCiE.S. 



Naval observatory: For i)ayment to Smithsonian Institution for 

 freight on observatory i)ublications sent to foreign countries, one hun- 

 dred and thirty-six dollars. 



(Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act. Approved 

 July ai, 1886, chapter 827.) 



War department. — For the transportation of reports and mai)S to 

 foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred 

 dollars. 



(Sundry civil appropriation act. Apploved August 4, 188G, 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 necessaiy em- 

 pl<»yes, 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 

 11. Mis. 142 111 xxxiii 



