ACTS AND EESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, &o. 



In continuation from previous reports. 



ACTING SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



An act to provide for the appoiutmeut of an Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian 



Institution. 



[PubliCi.No. 31, Forty-eighth Congress, First Session.] 



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

 States of America in Conr/ress assembled, That the Chancellor of the 

 Smithsonian Institution may, by an instrument in writing filed in the 

 ofiQce of the Secretary thereof, designate and appoint a suitable person 

 to act as Secretary of the Institution when there shall be a vacancy in 

 said office, and whenever the Secretary shall be unable, from illness, 

 absence, or other cause, to jierform the duties of his office ; and in such 

 case the person so appointed may i^erform all the duties imposed on the 

 Secretary by law until the vacancy shall be filled or such inability shall 

 cease. The said Chancellor may change such designation and appoint- 

 ment from time to time as the Institution may, in his judgment, re- 

 quire. 



(Ai)proved May 13, 1884. Statutes Forty-eighth Congress, first ses- 

 sion, chapter 44, page 2i.) 



PROPERTY TO BE TRANSPORTED FOR THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 

 An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year 1885. 



Provided also, That hereafter the Quartermaster-General and his 

 officers, under his instructions, wherever stationed, shall receive, trans- 

 port, and be responsible for all property turned over to them, or any one 

 of them, by the officers or agents of any Government survey, for the 

 National Museum, or for the civil or naval departments of the Govern- 

 ment, in Washington or elsewhere, under the regulations governing 

 the transportation of Army supplies, the amount paid for such trans- 

 portation to be refunded or paid by the Bureau to which such property 

 or stores pertain. 



(Approved July 5, 1884. Statutes Forty-eighth Congress, first ses- 

 sion, chap. 217, p. 111.) 



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