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Mr. CAMERON. Let us take a vote. 



The question being taken by yeas and nays on the amendment of the 

 Committee on Finance, as amended, resulted yeas 29, nays 6; as fol- 

 lows: 



YEAS Messrs. Anthony, Bigler, Bragg, Chandler, Clark, Dixon, Douglas, Durkee, 

 Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Harlan, Hemphill, Johnson of Arkansas, Johnson of Tennes- 

 see, Lane, Latham, Mason, Nicholson, Pearce, Polk, Powell, Sebastian, Seward, 

 Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Wade, and Wilson 29. 



NAYS Messrs. Cameron, Grimes, Hale, King, Rice, and Wilson 6. 



So the amendment, as amended, was agreed to. 



March 2, 1861. 



Sundry civil act for 1862. 



Exploring expedition. -For preservation of the collections of the 

 exploring and surveying expeditions of the Government; $4,000. 



For the distribution of the collections of the exploring and survey- 

 ing expeditions of the Government, and the construction of addi- 

 tional cases to receive such part of said collections as may be retained 

 by the Government, $6,000; such distribution to be only to institutions 

 willing to receive the same, and at their own expense. 



(Stat., XII, 217.) 



EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 

 June 15, 1860. 



Resolved, etc., That two copies of the works of the exploring expe- 

 dition, so far as they can be supplied from the copies ordered to be 

 deposited in the Library of Congress for preservation, by the resolu- 

 tion of February 20, 1845, and the residue of said works as they shall 

 be completed, be delivered to the Secretary of State, one copy of which 

 to be presented by him to the Federal Republic of Switzerland, and 

 the other to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, in the State of Maryland. 



(Stat., XII, 116.) 



February 21, 1861. 



Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1861. 



SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, There is hereby further appro- 

 priated, in like manner, to pay arrears due authors and artists of the 

 exploring expedition, in pursuance of the act of August 26, 1842, 

 $11,036.26. 



(Stat., XII, 144.) 



THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, 1861-1863. 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS 



By the Vice- President. 

 December 4, 1861 Senate. 



The CHAIR announced the appointment of "W. P. Fessenden, of Maine, 

 and Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, as Regents, 



