1042 CONGRESSIONAL TROCEEDINGS. 



February 23, 1887— Senate. 



Same petition presented and referred to Committee on Appro- 

 priations. 



SMITHSONIAN FUND. 

 June 22, 1886— House. 



Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury^ Mr. O. S. Fair- 

 child., ill regard to trmt funds held hy the United States: 



Treasury Departmp:nt, 



June 19, 1886. 

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SMITHSONIAN FUND. 



Under section 6, act July 7, 1838, the Secretary of the Treasury invested $515,169 

 belonging to the Smithsonian Institution in Arkansas State bonds, which amount, 

 with $187,831 covered into the Treasury to the credit of said Institution since then, 

 constitutes what is called the "Smithsonian fund," held in trust by the Secretary 

 of the Treasury, and on the total amount of the fund, $703,000, interest is paid semi- 

 annually to said Institution at the rate of 6 per cent per annum. 



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 PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. 



August 4, 1886. 



Sundry civil act for 1887. 



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And the heads of the Executive Departments, Ijefore transmitting 

 their annual reports to Congress the printing of which is chargeable 

 to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined 

 and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, 

 drawings, and illustrations except such as they shall certify in their 

 letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely 

 to the transaction of public business. * * * And hereafter the 

 scientific reports known as the monographs and bulletins of the Geo- 

 logical Survey shall not be published until specific and detailed esti- 

 mates are made therefor, and specific appropriations made in pursuance 

 of such estimates; and no engraving for the annual reports or for such 

 monographs and bulletins, or of illustrations, sections, and maps, shall 

 be done until specific estimates are submitted therefor and specific 

 appropriations made based on such estimates: Provided, That these 

 limitations shall not apply to the current fiscal year, nor to any of the 

 reports, mineral resources, monographs, or bulletins that may have 

 been transmitted for publication to the Public Printer prior to the 

 passage of this act: Provided further. That all printing and engraving 

 for the Geological Survey, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Hydro- 

 graphic OflSce of the Navy Department, and the Signal Service shall 

 hereafter be estimated for separately and in detail, and appropriated 

 for separately for each of said Bureaus. And no more than an allot- 

 ment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in 

 the two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth 



