ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE SMITHSONIAN 
INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC, 
(In continuation from previous reports. ) 
[Fifty-first Congress, second session, 1890—91. ] 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION :—INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 
For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the 
United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 
employees, seventeen thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation 
act, approved March 35, 1891.) 
U. S. Geological Survey: For the purchase of necessary books for 
the library and the payment for the transmission of public documents 
through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand five hundred dollars. 
(Sundry civil appropriation act, approved March 3, 1891.) 
War Department: For the transportation of reports and maps to 
foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred 
dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved March 3, 1891.) 
To pay the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacifie Railroad Company 
amount found due bythe accounting officers of the Treasury on account 
of international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution, being for the 
service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, sixty-six 
cents. (Deficiency act, Ch. 540, Statutes, p. 866. Approved March 3, 
1891.) 
Library of Congress: For expenses of exchanging public documents 
for the publications of foreign governments, one thousand five hundred 
dollars. (Legislative, executive, and judicial act, Ch. 541, Statutes, 
page 914. Approved March 3, 1891.) 
Naval Observatory: For repairs [ete., ete.], * * * including pay- 
ment to Smithsonian Institution for freight on observatory publications 
sent to foreign countries, postage, expressage [ete., etc.|, four thousand 
five hundred and fifty dollars. (Legislative, executive, and judicial act, 
Ch. 541, Statutes, p. 955. Approved March 3, 1891.) 
United States Patent Office: For purchase of books, and expenses of 
transporting publications, patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign 
governments, three thousand dollars. (Legislative, executive, and ju- 
dicial act, Ch. 541, Statutes, p. 959. Approved Mar. 35, 1891.) 
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