182 ACTS AND EESOLUTIONS OF UOJGKESS. 



Chap. 180. An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Depart- 

 ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted, &c., . . . the provisions of said fifth and sixth 

 sections are hereby likewise extended and made applicable to allofttcial 

 mail matter sent from the Smithsonian Institution. 



Approved March 3, 1879. 



(Eevised Statutes, supplement, vol. 1, page 458.) 



Joint Eesolution [No. 22] providing for the distribution and sale of the new edition 

 of the Eevised Statutes of the United States. 



Resolved, &c.. That the . . . copies of the new edition of the first 

 volume of the Eevised Statutes of the United States ... be dis- 

 posed of by the Secretary of State as follows : ... to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, two copies. ... 



Approved May 22, 1878. 



(Eevised Statutes, supplement, vol 1, page 387.) 



Chap. 182. An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the govern- 

 ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes. 



Sect. 1, Par. 12. That all the archives, records, and materials relating 

 to the Indians of North America, collected by the Geographical and Geo- 

 logical Survey of the Eocky Mountain region, shall be turned over to the 

 Smithsonian Institution, that the work may be completed and prepared 

 for i)ublication under its direction : Provided, That it shall meet the ap- 

 proval of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Approved March 3, 1879. 



(Eevised Statutes, supplement, vol. 1, page 461.; 



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Joint Eesolution [No. 11] concerning an international fishery exhibition to be held 

 in Berlin, Germany, in April, eighteen hundred and eighty. 



Whereas all civilized nations take part in the International Fishery 

 Exhibition to be held in the city of Berlin, Germany, in April, eighteen 

 hundred and eighty, it is deemed both right and expedient that the 

 prominent and efi'ective action of the United States in the line of the 

 artificial propagation of fish and the stocking of depleted fishing waters 

 shoidd be conspicuously and well exhibited on the occasion : Therefore, 



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

 of America in Congress assembled. That to enable the United States Com- 

 missioner of Fish and Fisheries to exhibit in Berlin, in April, eighteen 

 hundred and eighty, a fair and full collection of the different specimens 

 of American food fishes, casts thereof, models of, and implements, and 

 so forth, used in the prosecution of American fisheries, the sum of twenty 

 thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys not other- 

 wise appropriated in the Treasury of the United States, or so much 



