480 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



knowledge, and does attend to their diffusion among men. This, 

 however, is not a contribution to human knowledge, but is a report to 

 Congress of the manner in which the Board of Regents executed the 

 trust confided to them. 



Mr. J. A. Pearce. I beg leave simply to add that the law organizing 

 the Smithsonian Institution compels the Board of Regents to make this 

 annual report to Congress. 



Mr. J. M. Mason. I move to amend the motion so as to provide 

 that 1,000 copies shall be printed for the Institution. 



Mr. Moses Norris. Is this the report of a committee? 



Mr. Borland. It is the report of the Board of Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution; the question of printing- it was referred to 

 the Committee on Printing; the committee were in favor of the propo- 

 sition, but could not make a report. It has been ordered to be printed; 

 and the proposition now is to print 3,000 extra copies. 



Mr. Norris. Does it come from the Committee on 'Printing? 



Mr. Borland. It does. 



The amendment was agreed to. 



international exchanges. 

 September 30, 1850. 



Civil and diplomatic act for 185L 



For carrying into effect the international exchanges of books, 

 authorized by the act of June 26, 18tl:8, entitled "An act to regulate 

 the exchanges of certain documents and other publications of Congress," 



$2,000. 



(Stat., IX, 524.) 



February 27, 1851. 



Resolved^ etc. , That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the 

 House of Representatives be, and they hereby are, directed to dis- 

 tribute, by mail or otherwise, the works now being published by 

 authority of Congress, known as the works of Alexander Hamilton, 

 in the manner following, to wit: * * * to the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, one copy; * * * to the Joint Committee on the Library for 

 the purpose of international exchange, twelve copies. 



Sec. 3. And he it fwrther resolved. That the works of the late John 

 Adams, published and being published, for which the Congress of the 

 United States have subscribed, be distributed in the same manner as is 

 herein provided for the distribution of the works of the late Alexander 

 Hamilton, except the five copies to Mrs. Eliza Hamilton. 



(Stat., IX, 646.) 



March 3, 1851. 



Civil and diplomatic act for 1852. 



Of the Annals of Congress * * '■■ twenty-five copies for inter- 

 national exchanges * * * two copies to the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. 



(Stat, IX, 599.) 



