828 CONGKESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



A commission was appointed with autiiority to issue stock for 

 $12,000,000. Not loss than $1,000,000 was to be subscribed and not 

 less than 10 per cent paid in before said corporation could do any 

 corporate act other than organize. 



(Stat., XXI, 77.) 



March 1. 1881. 



Joint resolution. 



Resolved, etc., That whenever the President whall deem the preparations which 

 shall have been made therefor adequate he is hereby authorized and requested, 

 in the name of the United States, to invite all foreign governments to be represented 

 at and take part in the international exhibition of arts, manufactures, and products 

 of the soil and mine to be held under the direction of the United States Interna- 

 tional Commission at the city of New York, in the State of New York, in the year 

 1883: Provided, hoioever. That the United States shall not be liable, directly or 

 indirectly, for any of the expenses attending such exhibition, or by reason of the 

 invitation hereby authorized. 

 (Stat., XXI, 520.) 



NATIONAIi MUSEUM TRANSPORTATION. 



July 1, 1879. 



General Orders, \ Headquarters of the Army, 



>• Adjutant-General's Office, 



No. 65. ) Washmgton. 



By direction of the Secretary of War: 



The Quartermaster's Department is authorized to receive from par- 

 ties living at or near military posts any articles intended for the 

 National Museum, and forward them to Washington, under the regu- 

 lations governing transportation of military property, and on the same 

 forms of bills of lading. The packages to be marked, "National 

 Museum, care Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C," and settle- 

 ment to be made by the Quartermaster's Department. 

 By command of General Sherman: 



E. D. Townsend, 



Adjutant- General. 



national museum — use of mriLDING. 



February 9, 1880 — House. 



Mr. A. M. Bliss introduced a joint resolution: 



That the use of the new National Museum building, now in process of erection, be 

 granted to the Democratic National Convention of 1880, under regulations to be pre- 

 scribed by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Referred to Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 

 February 28, 1881 — House. 



Mr. Philip Cook presented House concurrent resolution: 



That permission is granted to the Washington Light Infantry Corps of the District 

 of Columbia to use the Museum building on Monday evening, the 7th of March, 1881, 

 provided that no expense shall be thereby incurred to the United States. 



