FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, 1881-1883. 883 



Sec. 5. That in order to defray the expenses of the collection, prep- 

 aration, and packing of the exhibit authorized, its transfer from and 

 to the United States, its installation and supervision in London, and 

 such other incidental expenses as may of necessity arise, there is hereby 

 appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States 

 not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000, or so much thereof 

 as may l)e required, to be immediately available, and to be expended 

 by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, under the 

 direction and regulations of the Department of State. 



(Stat., XXII, 387.) 



March 3, 1883. 



Sundry civil act for 1884. 



For the use of the United States exhibit at the International Fishery 

 Exhibition, to be held in London in May, 1883, to be expended by the 

 United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, under the direction 

 and regulations of the Department of State, $10,000, which shall be 

 immediately available. 



(Stat., XXII, ()03.) 



Jioxtoit Exposition . 

 June 28, 1882. 



Act approved to admit free of duty articles for the ** Exhibition of 



Art and Industrv in Boston, in 1883." 



(Stat., XXII, "ll(>.) 



PMladelphio Centenmal Exposition. 



August 8, 1882— House. 



Mr. William M. Springer. There is deposited with the Clerk of 

 the House a large box containing reports of the boards on behalf of 

 the Executive Departments of the United States at the Centennial 

 Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876. Among them are a large number 

 of photographs illustrative of the articles exhibited there on behalf of 

 the Government. In response to a petition sent to the Committee on 

 Printing b}^ one of those boards that these documents should be sent 

 to the Smithsonian Institution for safe-keeping, and also that Professor 

 Baird be requested to report upon which of them are valuable for 

 publication, I submit this resolution: 



Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to transmit to tlie Director of 

 the Smithsonian Institution the reports of the boards on behalf of the United States 

 Executive Departments as represented at the International Exhibition at Philadel- 

 phia in 1876, for preservation in the National Museum; and that Prof. Spencer F. 

 Baird be requested to report to the House of Representatives as to the propriety and 

 cost of the publication of said reports and accompanying illustrations. 



Adopted. 

 February 15, 1883 — House. 



The Speaker (Mr. J. Warren Keifer) laid before the House a 

 letter • from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in response 



