ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, ETC. 



[Continued from previous reports.] 



[Sixtieth Congress, first session.] 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Appointment of Regent : Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That tile vacancy 

 in tlie Board of Regents of tlie Smitlisonian Institution of the class " other 

 than Members of Congress " shall be filled by the appointment of Charles F, 

 Choate, junior, a citizen of Massachusetts. (Approved, February 24, 1908; 

 Statutes, XXXV, 567.) 



Smithsonian grounds : For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smith- 

 sonian grounds, three thousand dollars. (Approved, May 27, 1908; Statutes, 

 XXX Y, 355.) 



Printing and binding : For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing and 

 binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, vs^ith general appendixes, 

 ten thousand dollars ; under the Smithsonian Institution, for the Annual Re- 

 ports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing 

 labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National 

 Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and 

 binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and 

 pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, thirty- 

 four thousand dollars; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the 

 Bureau, twenty-one thousand dollars; for miscellaneous printing and binding 

 for the International Exchanges, two hundred dollars ; the International Cata- 

 logue of Scientific Literature, one hundred dollars; the National Zoological 

 Park, two hundred dollars; the Astrophysical Observatory, one hundred dol- 

 lars; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, seven 

 thousand dollars; in all, seventy-two thousand six hundred dollars. (Approved, 

 May 27, 1908; Statutes, XXXy, 383.) 



Smithsonian deposit (Library of Congress) : For custodian, one thousand 

 five hundred dollars ; assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars ; messenger, 

 seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty 

 dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. (Approved, 

 May 22, 1908; Statutes, XXXV, 194.) 



Washington statue: Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 

 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the statue of 

 President Washington, now located in the Capitol grounds east of the Capitol, 

 be, and the same is hereby, transferred to the custody of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. (Approved, May 22, 190S; Statutes, XXXV, 576.) 

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