ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO 

 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, ETC. 



[Continued from previous Reports.] 



[Fifty-sixth Congress, second session.] 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancy in the 

 Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than 

 members of Congress, caused by the death of William Lyne Wilson, 

 of Virginia, shall be tilled by the appointment of George Gray, a resi- 

 dent of Delaware. (Approved January 14. 1901; Statutes, XXXI, 

 1459.) 



That facilities for study and research in the Government Depart- 

 ments, the Library of Congress, the National Museum, the Zoological 

 Park, the Bureau of Ethnology, the Fish Commission, the Botanic 

 Gardens, and similar institutions hereafter established shall be afforded 

 to scientific investigators and to duly qualified individuals, students, 

 and graduates of institutions of learning in the several States and Ter- 

 ritories, as well as in the District of Columbia, under such rules and 

 restrictions as the heads of the Departments and Bureaus mentioned 

 may prescribe. (Approved March 3, 1901; Statutes, XXXI, 1039.) 



Smithsonian Deposit [Library of Congress]. — For custodian, one 

 thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand two hundred 

 dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one mes- 

 senger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand 

 seven hundred and eighty dollars. (Approved March 3, 1901 ; Statutes, 

 XXXI, 970.) 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 



For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the 

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

 sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 

 employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, 



