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the sendiug of collections to Minneapolis. The joint resolution, which 

 was approved March 3, 1887, is here quoted : 



[Public resolution No. 18.] 



JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing tlie several Executive Departnieuts of the Govern- 

 ment to loan to the Minneapolis Industrial Exposition certain articles for exhibit. 



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

 of America in Congress assembled,, That it is desirable, in any way con- 

 sistent with existing laws, and without risk to Government property 

 or expense to the National Treasury, to encourage the effort being 

 made for the oj)ening 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 unqualified 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 Industrial 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 matle, the proper head of the Department 

 shall require and receive a good and sufficient bond, by or in behalf of 

 such exposition, for the safe return thereof as aforesaid, and to indem- 

 nify and save harmless the Government of the United States, or any 

 Department thereof, from any liability or expense on account thereof, 

 or on account of this resolution. 



Approved, March 3, 1887. 



The exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution was prepared under the 

 direction of Mr. W. V. Cox, Chief Clerk of the National Museum, who 

 was appointed representative of the Institution on this occasion. The 

 exhibit may be classified under the following heads : Ethnology, Tex- 

 tiles and Fabrics, Metallurgy, Deer Antlers and Horns, Casts of Fishes 

 of North America, Photographs of Government Buildings, including the 

 Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, collection of specimens 

 illustrating the composition of the human body. The total weight of 

 this exhibit was 21,507 pounds. The entire Government exhibit at- 

 tracted much attention, and repeated requests were made by the man- 

 agers of the exposition for the privilege of keeping the articles for 

 another exhibition. 



A much more extensive enterprise was the Ohio Valley and Central 

 States Exposition at Cincinnati, opening July 4, 1888, which, together 

 with an exhibition at Marietta on July 15 to July 19, was made the sub- 

 ject of a bill which, having passed both Houses, was approved May 28, 

 1888. A co])y of the act approved May 28, and of the explanatory act 

 approved July 10, is here given. 



