REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 1X1 



I Public Resolution No. 26.] 

 Joint RESOLUTION declaring the true intent and meaning of the aot approved May 28, 1888. 



Resolvedby the Senate and Some of Representatives of the United States of America in 

 Congress assembled, That it is the true intent and meaning of the act of Congress ap- 

 proved May "28, 1888, hy the President of the United States, entitled "An act making 

 appropriation to enable the several Executive Departments <>f the Government, and 



the Bureau of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution, including the National 

 Museum and the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, to participate in the Centennial 

 Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, to be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 from July 4 to October 7, 1888," that the President of the United States may, in his 

 discretion, make an order directing that any documents, papers, maps, not original, 

 books, or other exhibits which properly and pertinently relate to the establish- 

 ment of civil government in the territory northwest of the Ohio River, may be sent 

 it i >< > i i an Executive order from any of the several Departments in said act named, or 

 from the exhibits now at Cincinnati; and that the appropriation of money in said 

 act to defray the expenses of such exhibits may be made applicable, in so far as the 

 President of the United States may direct, to the payment of the expenses of the care 

 and transportation to and return of such exhibits from Marietta ; and the same shall 

 be paid from such fund heretofore set apart for each Department, as the President 

 may order. Xor shall anything in this act be so construed as to prevent the purchase 

 of suitable materials and the employment of proper persons to complete or modify 

 series of objects and classes of specimens, when, in the judgment of the head of any 

 Department, sm-li purchase or employment, or both, is necessary in the proper prep- 

 aration and conduct of an exhibit. Nor to authorize the removal from their places 

 of deposit in Washington of any original paper or document, or laws or ordinances 

 whatever. 

 Approved, July 16, 1888. 



O wing to the absence in Europe of Professor Langley, the secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, Mr. G. Brown Goode, the acting secre- 

 tary and representative to the Exposition,- was unable to leave his 

 official post in Washington. T was therefore delegated to represent 

 Professor Goode at the Marietta Centennial Exposition. 



The executive order permitting the sending of exhibits to Marietta 

 was not received until noon of July 14, the day before the opening of 

 the Centennial, and at 9.40 p. m. of that day, I, together with Mr. Paul 

 Brocket t, took the first express train at Washington, with thirty-one 

 boxes, containing 7,327 pounds of exhibits in charge. 



Arriving about noon of the 15th, these exhibits were conveyed to 

 the City Hall, and by 2.30 a. m. the following day, the centennial 

 anniversary of the inauguration at Marietta of General St. Clair as 

 the governor of the "Northwest Territory," the display of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and the National Museum was in order and ready 

 lor examination. 



It was thought that students of Marietta and the archaeologists would 

 be interested in a collection illustrative of the arts of the Haida Indians 

 of Queen Charlotte Archipelago, British America, as these Indians are 

 in the same condition of culture as the builders of the earthworks at 



Marietta, and so, to give, a general idea, of the .arts of the ancient mound- 



