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ence to the prize list, this prize was awarded in exactly the same manner as others 

 of less importance to various exhibitors of apparatus and fishery ]iroducts. 

 Very respectfully, 



G. Brown Goode, DepiUi/ Coinmissio7ier. 

 Hon. George F. P]pmunds. 



December 21, 1880— Senate. 



Mr. Justin S. Morrill, from Committee on Finance, reported back 

 favorably S. 1928. Passed. 

 February 15, 1881 — House. 



On motion of Mr. J. G. Carlisle, S. 1928 was passed. 



February 21, 1881. 



Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, 

 directed to remit the customs duties chargeable upon the object of art given by His 

 Majesty the German Emperor and King of Prussia to the Berlin International 

 Fishery Exhibition, and by it awarded as the first grand prize of honor to Professor 

 Spencer F. Baird, at the exhibition held in the city of Berlin, Prussia, in the month 

 of June, 1880. 



(Stat., XXI, 608.) 



Phf'Iadeljj/iiff Sheep and Wool Jih'j>o.'<itio?i. 

 April 1, 1880. 



Act was approved providing for the participation by the Government 

 in the International Sheep and Wool Show at Philadelphia, September, • 

 1880, the Commissioner of Agriculture to attend in person or by 

 deputy and to make a full and complete report of the same. 



(Stat, XXI, 70.) 

 June 16, 1880. 



Agricultural Department act for 1881. 



For the purpose of testing by scientific examination the textile 

 strength, felting capacity, and other peculiarities of the different 

 wools and animal fibers on exhibition at the International Sheep and 

 Wool Exposition to be held in Philadelphia, in 1880, $4,000. 

 , (Stat., XXI, 295.) 

 March 3, 1881. 



An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture 

 provided for testing the textile strength, felting capacity, and other 

 peculiarities of the different wools and animal fibers collected at the 

 Philadelphia International Exhibition of Sheep and Wool Products, 

 $5,000, including $500 to John L. Hayes for his report on Sheep 

 Husbandry in the South, published by resolution of Congress. 



(Stat., XXI, 384.) 



New Yorh Exposition. 

 April 23, 1880. 



Act was approved to provide for celebrating the one hundredth 

 anniversary of the treaty of peace and the recognition of American 

 independence, by holding an international exposition of arts, manu- 

 factures, and the products of the soil and mine in the city of New York 

 in 1883. 



