724 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHAN(}ES. 

 June 20, 1874. 



Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1875. 



Library of Congress: For expenses of exchanging- pu))lic docuinoiits 

 for the publications of foreign governments, $1,600. 

 (Stat., XVIII, Part 3, 88.) 



March 3, 1875. 



Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1876. 



Library of Congress: For expenses of exchanging public documents 

 for the publications of foreign governments, $1,500. 

 (Stat., XVIII, Part 3, 347.) 



DOCUMENTS. 

 June 20, 1874. 



Be it enacted^ etc. * * * 



Sec. 6. That at the close of every session of Congress the Secretary 

 of State shall cause to be distributed pamphlet copies of the acts and 

 resolves of Congress for that session, edited and printed in the man- 

 ner aforesaid, as follows: To the * * * Smithsonian Institution, 

 five copies. * * * 



Sec. 7. That after the close of each Congress the Secretaiy of State 

 shall have edited, printed, and bound a sufficient number of the 

 volumes containing the Statutes at Large enacted by that Congress 

 to enable him to distribute copies, or as many thereof as may be 

 needed, as follows: To the * * * Smithsonian Institution, two 

 copies. * * * 



(Stat., XVIII, Part 3, 113.) 



ACT OF ORGANIZATION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



June 22, 1874. 



Revised Statutes. 



Preamble. — James Smithson, esq., of London, in the Kingdom of 

 Great Britain, having by his last will and testament given the whole 

 of his property to the United States of America, to found, at Wash- 

 ington, under the name of the "Smithsonian Institution," an estab- 

 lishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men; and 

 the United States having, by an act of Congress, received said property 

 and accepted said trust; therefore, for the faithful execution of said 

 trust, according to the will of the liberal and enlightened donor. 



Sec. 5579. The President, the Vice-President, the Secretary of State, 

 the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of 

 the Navy, the Postmaster-General, the Attorney-General, the Chief 

 Justice, the Commissioner of the Patent Ofiice, and the governor of 



