ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 1 80 



thereof as may be necessary for the purpose, to be immediately availa- 

 ble on the passage of this resolution, to be expended under the direction 

 of the Secretary of State. 



Sec. 2. That the CJuited States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries 

 be, and is hereby, autliorized to represent the United States, either in 

 person or by a deputy to be appointed by the President of the United 

 States ; and that, at his discretion, he may use any portion of the col- 

 lections at present forming i^art of the National Museum in making up 

 the proposed exhibition by the United States. 



Sec. 3. That the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries 

 be, and is hereby, instructed to present to Congress, through the De- 

 partment of State, a report upon the Berlin exhibition, showing the 

 recent progress and present condition of the fisheries and of fish-culture 

 in foreign countries. 



Approved February 16, 1880. 



(Statutes, vol. 21, page 301). 



Chap. 73. An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year end- 

 ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes. 



Naval Observatory. — For payment to the Smithsonian Institution for 

 freight on Observatory publications for eighteen hundred and eighty, to 

 be shipped in eighteen hundred and eighty, two hundred and thirty-six 

 dollars and twenty -five cents. 



Approved May 3, 1880. 



(Statutes, vol. 21, page 84.) 



For payment to the Smithsonian Institution for freight on Observa- 

 tory publications for eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to be shipped to 

 foreign countries in eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two hundred and 

 thirty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. 



Approved May 3, 1880. 



(Statutes, vol. 21, page 84.) 



Chap. 42. An act making an appropriation for the flooring of the National Museum. 



Be it enacted, cfcc. That the sum of twenty-six thousand dollars, or so 

 much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appro- 

 priated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 

 to place a flooring of marble and encaustic tiles in the large halls of the 

 National Museum building, to be expended according to plans and under 

 the direction of tbe building commission of the Board of Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution under whose supervision the museum has been 

 constructed. 



Approved February 9, 1881. 



(Statutes, vol. 21, page 324.) 



