APPENDIX TO THE PtEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 125 



ACTS AND EESOLUTIONS OF C0:NGRESS EELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



FoETY-FiFTn Congress, Session II. 



Public Resolution — No. 6. 



JOINT RESOLUTION filling an existing vacancy in the Board of Regents of the 



Smithsonian Institution. 



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

 of America in Congress assembled, That the existing vacancy in the Boaixl 

 of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than mem- 

 bers of Congress, shall be filled by the appointment of Noah Porter, 

 of Connecticut, in place of James D. Dana, resigned- 

 Approved, January 2G, 1878. 



Public Resolution — No. 15. 



JOINT RESOLUTION fiUing an existing vacancy in the Board of Regents of the 



Smithsonian Institution. 



Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United' States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That the existing vacancy in the Board 

 of Eegents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than mem- 

 bers of Congress, shaU be filled by the appointment of WilliA]M T. 

 Sheriman, of the city of Washington, in place of Georg-e Bancroft, 

 of said city, resigned. 



Approved, March 25, 1878. 



Forty-fifth Congress, Session III. 



Chapter 21. 



AN ACT authorizing the Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution to appoint an Act- 

 ing Secretary in certain cases. 



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

 States of America in Congress assembled, That in the case of the death, 

 resignation, sickness, or absence of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, the Chancellor thereof shall be, and he is hereby, author- 

 ized to appoint some person as Acting Secretary, who for the time being 

 shall be clothed with all the powers and duties which by law are de- 

 volved upon the Secretary, and he shall hold said position until an elec- 

 tion of Secretary shall be duly made, or until the Secretary shall be 

 restored to his health, or, if absent, shall return and enter upon the 

 duties of his office. 



Approved, January 24, 1879. 



