THIETY -THIRD CONGRESS, 1853-1855. 505 



August 1, 1854 — House. 



Mr. Ct. W. Jones, of Tennessee. The Committee on Ways and 

 Means recommend a nonconcurrence in the one hundred and sixty- 

 fifth amendment: 



Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That the collections of the exploring expe- 

 dition, now in the Patent Office, be placed under the care and management of the 

 Commissioner of Patents, who is hereby authorized to employ one principal keeper 

 of .'aid collections at an annual salary of $900, one assistant keeper at an annual salary 

 of $750, one night watchman at an annual salary of $600, and two laborers at annual 

 salary each of $365. 



The amendment was nonconcurred in. 

 August 3, 1854 — House. 



The Senate having reinserted the section that the House noncon- 

 curred in on August 1, Mr. G. S. Houston said: 



Upon examination of that amendment, Mr. J. A. Pearce, of the 

 Senate committee, who is a member of the Joint Committee on the 

 Library, assured us that these officers are now kept up and paid to 

 have charge of this collection. The object of the amendment is only 

 to relieve the Joint Committee on the Library from their responsi- 

 bility concerning the matter. There is, I believe, an increase of one 

 messenger, besides which it will cost no more money than under the 

 present arrangement. The committee, therefore, report in favor of 

 the House receding from its disagreement. 



August 4, 1854. 



Civil and diplomatic act for 1855. 



For the preservation of the collections of the exploring expedition: 

 For compensation of keepers, watchmen, and laborers, $2,980. 

 For contingent expenses, $100. 



(Stat., X, 532.) 



REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



July 25, 1854— Senate. 



The Presiding Officer (Mr. Jesse D. Bright) laid before the 

 Senate a letter of the Secretar}' of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 transmitting the annual report of the Board of Regents, which, on 

 motion of Mr. J. A. Pearce, was ordered to be printed; and a motion 

 by Mr. T. J. Rusk to print 10,000 additional copies was referred to 

 the Committee on Printing. 

 July 28, 1854Senate. 



Mr. R. W. Johnson, from the Committee on Printing, to whom 

 was referred a motion to print additional copies of the eighth annual 

 report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, re- 

 ported resolution: 



Resolved, That there be printed, for the use of the Senate, 10,000 extra copies of the 

 eighth annual report of the, Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 500 of such copies 

 to be given to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for its use. 



Agreed to. 



