150 ACTS OF CONGRESS. 



SMITHSONIAN MAIL MATTER FREE OF POSTAGE. 



An act making appropriations for the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year 1885. 



The provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of the act entitled "An 

 act establishing post-routes, and for other purposes" approved March 

 3, 1877, for the transmission of official mail matter, be, and they are 

 hereby, extended to all officers of the United States Government, not 

 including- members of Congress, the envelopes of such matter in all cases 

 to bear appropriate indorsements containing the proper designation of 

 the office from which or officer from whom the same is transmitted, 

 with a statement of the penalty for their misuse. And the provisions 

 of said fifth and sixth sections are hereby likewise extended and made 

 applicable to all official mail matter of the Smithsonian Institution: 

 Provided, That any Department or officer authorized to use the penalty 

 envelopes may enclose them with return address to any person or per- 

 sons from or through whom official information is desired, the same to 

 be used only to cover such official information, and indorsements re- 

 lating thereto. * * * 



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

 sion, chap. 234, p. 158.) 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AT NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION. 



To enable the several Executive Departments, the Department of 

 Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution to participate in the 

 "World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition to be held at New 

 Orleans, Louisiana, under act of Congress of February tenth, eighteen 

 hundred and eighty-three, as follows : For the War Department, fifteen 

 thousand dollars ; for the Kavy Department, ten thousand dollars ; for 

 the State Department, ten thousand dollars ; for the Treasury Depart- 

 ment, twelve thousand dollars 5 for the Interior Department, one hun- 

 dred and twenty- five thousand dollars ] for the Post-Office Department, 

 ten thousand dollars 5 for the Department of Agriculture, twenty-five 

 thousand dollars ; for the Department of Justice, three thousand dol- 

 lars ; for the Smithsonian Institution (including the National Museum 

 and Commission of Fish and Fisheries), seventy-five thousand dollars ; 

 for necessary incidental expenses of administration by the board, includ- 

 ing office rent, fuel, gas, stationery, telegrams, and expressage, fifteen 

 thousand dollars; in all, three hundred thousand dollars, to be dis- 

 bursed under the direction of the Board on United States Executive 

 Departments appointed under executive order of May thirteenth, eight- 

 een hundred and eighty-foar ; and no expense of any kind beyond the 

 amounts herein provided for shall be incurred by any of the said De- 

 partments, or any officer thereof, on account of said exposition. 



To enable the several Executive Departments of the Government, in- 

 cluding the Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institu- 



