FOKTIETH CONGRESS, 1867-1869. 667 



A. H. Lafiin, the House reconsidered its action and passed the reso- 

 lution. 

 March 2, 1867. 



Resolved, etc., That fifty copies of all documents hereafter printed 

 by order of either House of Congress, and fifty copies additional of 

 all documents printed in excess of the usual number, together with 

 fifty copies of each publication issued by any department or bureau of 

 the Government, be placed at the disposal of the Joint Committee on 

 the Library, who shall exchange the same, through the agency of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, for such works published in foreign coun- 

 tries, and especially by foreign governments, as may be deemed by 

 said committee an equivalent; said works to be deposited in the Library 

 of Congress. 



(Stat., XIV, 573.) 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS 



By the Speaker. 

 March 7, 1867 House. 



The Speaker (Mr. SCHUYLER COLFAX) appointed Luke P. Poland, 

 of Vermont, a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, to fill the 

 vacancy occasioned by the election of J. W. Patterson to the United 

 States Senate. 



FORTIETH CONGRESS, 1867-1869. 



EXPOSITIONS. 



Paris Universal Exhibition. 



March 12, 1867. 



Resolved, etc. 1. That the commission of the United States at the 

 Universal Exhibition to be held at Paris in the year 1867 shall consist 

 of the commissioner-general and honorary commissioner, whose ap- 

 pointment was approved by the joint resolution of January 22 [15], 

 1866; also of the thirty commissioners whose appointment was pro- 

 vided for by the joint resolution of July 5, 1866, and of twenty com- 

 missioners whose appointment is hereinafter provided for. 



2. That the commissioner-general shall be the president of the com- 

 mission thus constituted, with a vote on all questions that may arise. 



3. That the commission shall meet at Paris as early as possible 

 before the opening of the exhibition, upon the call of the commis- 

 sioner-general, and, when properly organized, shall make such rules 

 and regulations as may be necessary for efficient action, with power to 

 elect a vice-president from their own number, who, in the absence of 



