4(38 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



to the accounts of Lieutenant W. L. Hudson, then commanding the 

 United States sloop Peacock, attached to said expedition. 



(Stat., IX, 344.) 

 March 2, 1849. 



Resolved, etc., That the librarian of Congress be, and is hereby, 

 directed to procure and deliver to the Secretary of State two copies of 

 volumes six and seven of the Narrative of the Exploring Expedition 

 under Captain Wilkes; and the Secretary of State is hereby directed 

 to deliver them to the government of Russia in lieu of those hereto- 

 fore delivered, which were lost at sea on their passage to Russia; and 

 that the cost of the same be paid out of the funds heretofore appro- 

 priated to the publication of the works of the Exploring Expedition. 



SEC. 2. And l)e it further resolved. That the librarian of Congress 

 deliver one copy of the works of the Exploring Expedition, as they 

 shall be completed, to the Secretary of State, to be presented by him 

 to the government of Ecuador. 



(Stat. IX, 418.) 



March 3, 1849. 



Civil and diplomatic act, 1850. 



For continuing the publication of the works of the exploring expe- 

 dition, including the salary of the horticulturist, and addition to the 

 greenhouse, $15,000. 



(Stat. IX, 365.) 



THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS, 1849-1851. 



EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 

 February 20, 1850. 



Resolved, etc., That of the thirty-seven copies of the Narrative and 

 Scientific works of the Exploring Expedition, deposited and to be 

 deposited in the library of Congress one copy shall be presented to 

 each of the Territories of Oregon, Minnesota, and such other Territo- 

 ries as may be hereafter organized by act of Congress, to belong to the 

 Territorial libraries of such Territories, respectively, and to stand in 

 the place of the copy each of those Territories would be entitled to 

 receive upon being admitted into the Union as a State. 



(Stat. IX, 561.) 



September 30, 1850. 



Civil and diplomatic act for 1851. 



For continuing the publication of the works of the Exploring Expe- 

 dition, including the printing of the charts, the pay of the scientific 

 corps, salary of the horticulturist, and care of the collections, $25, 000. 



(Stat. IX^ 543.) 



