ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONL\N INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. 



(In coiitinnatioii from previons reports. J 



* [Fifty-third Cougress, first aud second sessions.] 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



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

 States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Revised Statutes, 

 title seventy-three, being a reenactment of ''An act to establish the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diflusion of knowledge 

 among men," approved Angnst tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, 

 be, and the same is hereby, amended so that section hfty-tive hundred 

 and seventy-nine shall read as follows: 



" Sec. 5570. That the President, the Vice-President, the Chief Jus- 

 tice, and the heads of Executive Departments are herel»y constituted 

 an establishment by the name of the Smithsonian Institution for the 

 increase and ditiusiou of knowledge among men, and by that name 

 shall be known and have perpetual succession, with the powers, limita- 

 tions, and restrictions hereinafter contained, and no other." 



And be further amended by striking out of section fifty-live hundred 

 and eighty the words "the governor of the District of Columbia." 



And be further amended by adding to section lifty-five hundred and 

 ninety-one as follows: 



^^ Froridedj That this shall not operate as a limitation on the power 

 of the Smithsonian Institution to receive money or other property by 

 gift, bequest, or devise, and to hold and dispose of the same in promo- 

 tion of the purposes thereof." Approved March 12, 1894. (Second 

 session Fifty-third Congress; Statutes at Large, vol. 28, p. 41.) 



Resolved hy the Senate and House of Rfpresentativcs 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, shall be filled by the rea])pointment of Andrew D. White, of 

 'Sew York, whose term of oftice ex])ires on February fifteenth, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety-four. Approved March 10, 1804, (Second session 

 Fifty-third Congress; Statutes at Large, vol. 28, p. 570.) 



ADVERTISEMENT FOR PROPOSALS. 



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

 States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirty-seven hun- 

 dred and nine of the Revised Statutes is amended by adding thereto 

 the following: 



And the advertisement for such proposals shall be made by all the 

 Executive Departments, including the Department of Labor, the United 

 States Fish Commission, the Interstate Commerce Connnission, the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the Government Printing Olfice, the govern- 

 ment of the District of Columbia, and the superintendent of the State, 

 War, and Navy building, except for paper and materials for use of the 

 Government Printing Oftice and materials used in the work of the 



