856 CONGBESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



May 3. 1880. 



Naval service act for 1881. 



Naval Observatory: For payment to the Smithsonian Institution 

 for freight on Observatory publications for 1S80, to be shipped in 1880, 

 $236.25, * * * in 1881, $236.25. 



(Stat., XXI, 81.) 



June 15, 1880. 



Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1881. 



Library of Congress : For expenses of exchang-ing pul^lic documents 



for the pul)lications of foreign governments, $1,000. 



(Stat., XXI, 215.) 



June 16, 1880. 



Sundry civil act for 1881. 



War Department: For transportation of reports and maps to foreign 

 countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, $500. 

 (Stat., XXI, 269.) 



February 23, 1881. 



Naval service act for 1881. 



Naval Observatory: For payment to the Smithsonian Institution for 

 freight on Observatory publications to be shipped to foreign countries 

 during the fiscal year 1882, $336.25. 



(Stat., XXI, 333.) 



March 3, 1881. 



Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1882. 



Library of Congress: For expenses of exchanging public documents 

 for the publications of foreign governments, $1,000. 

 (Stat., XXI, 390.) 



March 3, 1881. 



Sundry civil act for 1882. 



War Department: For transportation of reports and maps to foreign 

 countries through the Smithsonian Institution, $500. 



(Stat., XXI, 447.) 



For the expense of exchanging literary and scientific productions 

 with all nations by the Smithsonian Institution, $3,000. 



(Stat., XXI, 452.) 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION A CORPORATION? 



March 24. 1880— Senate. 



In debate on l^ill to establish a national educational association 

 (S. 1282) Mr. Matt. H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, said: 



Indeed, Mr. President, in every view of it that I can take, the bill 

 in the first place is unconstitutional, totally beyond our power to pass, 

 and in the next place it is a burlesque upon the charter of a cor- 

 poration. 



