ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. 



(Ill foiitinnntioti from pi-oAioiis K'cjKirts.) 



[Kitt,v-s»>cou(l ('oii.<;ress. first sossion, ISid, 18!t2.J 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Joint Kksoijiion [No. 2] to fill vafaiicies in the Board of Regents of the Siuitli- 



souiau Institution. 



Reftolved btj the tSenute and Jlotisc of Keprcseutatirr.s of the United 

 States of America, in Congress assembled^ That the vacancies iu the 

 Board of Kej;ents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other 

 tlian members of Con,uress sliall be tilled by the appointment of Wil- 

 liam I'reston Johnston, of Louisiana, iu ]»lace of Noah Porter, of Con 

 necticut, resijiiied, and the appointment of .lohn 15. Henderson, a citizen 

 of the District of Columbia, in place of Montgomery C. INIeigs, (b'ceased, 

 and by the rea])pointment of Henry Coppee, of Pennsylvania, whose 

 term of office exi)ired on December twenty-sixth, eighteen huiidi«Ml and 

 ninety-one. (Approved January 2(), 18!)i;.) 



War Department. — liidldint/s and (iroiinds: For imi)rovcment, ]nain- 

 tenance and care; of Smithsonian Grimnds, including construction of 

 asphalt roads and paths, live thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appro- 

 l)riation act. Cha]). .'^80. Statutes, p. 375. Ai)proved August o, 1802.) 



INTERNATIONAL EXOIIANGES. 



For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the 

 Ignited States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, including salaiies or compensation of all necessary 

 employees, tw«^lvc thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appro})riation act. 

 -cha]). '380. Statutes ]).3(>0. A i)provcd August T), 18!>L'.) 



Treaxury Department : To pay amounts found due i)y the accounting 

 officers of the Treasury on account of interimtional exchange, Smith- 

 sonian Institution, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen 

 liuudred and ninety, as follows: 



To i>ay the Baltimore and Ohio liailroad (company, sixty-seven cents. 

 (Dclicicncies appropriation act, cha[). 31 1. Statutes, ]). 283. Ai)proved 

 July 28, 18U2.) 



Library of (Jon fp-e.ss: For (>om|)ensation of Tiibrarian, [etc. | * * 

 eight assistant libraiians, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, 

 one of whom shall be in chaige of international exchanges. 



* * * For ex))cnses of exchanging ])ublic documents for the 

 jtublications of foreign governments, one thousand IInc hundred dollars. 

 (Legislative, executive, and judicial act. Chaj). UMI, Statutes, p. 18!>. 

 Appr(»ve<l July 1<>, 18!>2.) 



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