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INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 

 August 18, 1856. 



Civil act for 1857. 



To enable the Secretary of State to purchase 100 copies, each, of 

 Audubon's i; Birds of America" and "Quadrupeds of North America," 

 for presentation to foreign governments in return for valuable works 

 sent by them to the government of the United States, $16,000. 



(Stat., XI, 90.) 



EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 



August 18, 1856. 



Civil act for 1857. 



For replacing the works of the Exploring Expedition, destroyed by 

 the fire at Philadelphia, on the llth April last, the sum of $10,494.46. 

 (Stat, XI, 88.) 



CARE OF GOVERNMENT COLLECTIONS. 



August 18, 1856. 



Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1857. 



For preservation of the collections of the exploring expedition. For 

 compensation of keepers and watchmen therefor, and for laborers 

 employed at the rate of $480 per annum, per act August 4, 1854, $3,210. 



For contingent expenses, $200. 



(Stat., XI, 110.) 



March 3, 1857. 



Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1858. 



For preservation of the collections of the exploring expedition. For 

 compensation of keepers, watchmen, and laborers therefor, $3,450. 



For contingent expenses, $200. 



For the construction and erection of suitable cases to receive the 

 collections of the United States exploring expedition, and others in 

 geology, mineralogy, belonging to the United States, now in the 

 Patent-Office and elsewhere in Washington, $15,000. 



For the expense of the transfer of these collections, and the perma- 

 nent arrangement of the cases, $2,000. 



(Stat., XI, 219.) 



[These appropriations of $15,000 and $2,000 were made to the 

 Smithsonian Institution.] 



METEOROLOGY JAMES P. ESPY. 



February 28, 1857 Senate. 



Resolution passed to print the fourth Meteorological Report by 

 Prof. James P. Espj*. 



