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bition said building- shall be sold and the proceeds covered into the 

 Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: And prvoided further^ That the 

 sums hereby appropriated shall cover the entire expense to which 

 the United States -Government shall be subjected on account of said 

 exhibition, except the sum appropriated in this act for printing the 

 certificates of stock of said exhibition; and the Board on Executive 

 Departments is forbidden to expend any larger sum than is set down 

 herein for each Department, or to enter into an}" contract or engage- 

 ment that shall result in any such increased expenditure; and no money 

 shall be taken by any Department for the purposes of this exhibition 

 as aforesaid from any other appropriations except the one hereby 

 made: And further provided^ That of the sum hereby appropriated 

 the sum of $200,000 shall be immediately available. 

 (Stat., XYIII, Part 3, 400.) 



Vienna Exposition. 

 March 3. 1875. 



Deficiency act for 1875, etc. 



Sec. 7. That the Secretary of State is authorized to pay, out of any 

 balance now remaining* unexpended of the monies appropriated in 

 joint resolution approved February 14, 18T3. entitled ■" Joint resolu- 

 tion to enable the people of the United States to participate in the 

 advantages of the international exposition to be held at Vienna in 

 1873,'' the sum of $500 to each of the 1.5 commissioners appointed 

 under authority , of said joint resolution, who, in addition- to undertak- 

 ing reports upon special subjects at said exposition, either served upon 

 international juries or were detained in Vienna by reason of assisting 

 in the arrangement of the American department of the exposition, or 

 the performance of other duties imposed upon them by the State 

 Department for a period of more than seventy -live days, as shown by 

 the records on tile in the State Department. 



(Stat., XVin, Part 3, 418.) 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS 



By the Vice-President. 

 January 3, 1874 — Senate. 



The President pro tempore (Mr. M. H. Carpenter) appointed 

 Aaron A. Sargent, of California, a Regent of the Institution. 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS 



By the Speaker. 

 December 18, 1873 — House. 



The Speaker (Mr. James G. Blaine) appointed E. R. Hoar, of 

 Massachusetts, S. S. Cox, of New York, and G. W. Hazelton, of Wis- 

 consin, Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 

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