XL ACTS AND RfSOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS 



JOINT RESOLUTION (No. 57), authorizing the exhibits made by the Goveruuient 

 at the Ceiitenuial Exposition of the Ohio Valley ami Central States, at Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, to remain at saitl exposition until and including the fifteenth day of Novem- 

 ber, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. 



Resolved by the Senate an4 House of Represetitativesi'ftlie United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That authority is hereby granted to 

 continue until and IncludiDg November fifteenth, eighteen hundred and 

 eighty-eight, the exhibits made by the Governmeut at the Centennial 

 Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, at Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 uuder authority of the act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hun- 

 dred and eighty-eight. 



(Approved October 20, 1888 ) 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 



Naval observatory. — For payment to Smithsonian Institution 

 for freight on Observatory publications sent to foreign countries, one 

 hundred and thirty -six dollars. 



(Legislative, executive, and judicial ap])ropriatiou act. Approved 

 July 11, 1888, chapter 615.) 



United States geological survey. — For the purchase of neces- 

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

 public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, tive thousand 

 ilollars. 



(Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved October 2, 1888, chapter 

 1(MJ9.) 



International exchanges, Smithsonian Institution : For ex- 

 penses of the system of iuternational exchanges between the United 

 States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian 

 lustitution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary em- 

 ployees, fifteen thousand dollars. 



War department. — Transportation of reports and maps to foreign 

 countries : For the trausportatiou of reports and maps to foreign coun- 

 tries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. 



(Sundry civil appropriation act, approved October 2, 1888, chapter 

 10(39.) 



NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



North American ethnology: For the purpose of continuing 

 ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direc- 

 tion of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries 

 or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Under the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution as Director of the 

 National Museum. 



National Museum, heating and lighting: For expense of heat- 

 ing, lighting, and electrical and telephonic service for the National 

 Museum, twelve thousand dollars. 



Preservation of collections of the National Museum : For 

 the preservation, exhib.tion, and increase of the collections from the 

 surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from 

 other sources, iricluding salaries or compensation of all necessary em- 

 ployees, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. 



