FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1875-1877. 743 



The next amendment was to insert 



For expenses of making up into sets for distribution to colleges and academies the 

 duplicate ores, minerals, and objects of natural history now belonging to the United 

 States or in the collections of the international exposition presented to it by foreign 

 governments, $5,000. 



Agreed to. 



March 3, 1877. 



Sundry civil act for 1878. 



Smithsonian Institution: For preservation and care of the collec- 

 tions of the National Museum, $18,000. 



For expenses of making up into sets for distribution to colleges and 

 academies the duplicate ores, minerals, and objects of natural history 

 now belonging to the United States, or in the collections of the Inter- 

 national Exposition presented to it by foreign governments, $5,000. 



For fitting up the Armory Building for storage of articles belonging 

 to the United States, including those transferred from the Interna- 

 tional Exhibition and expense of watching the same, $2,500. 



(Stat.,XIX,350.) 



March 3, 1877. 



Deficiency act for 1877, etc. 



For the National Museum in charge of the Smithsonian Institution: 

 For restoring to their proper place in the National Museum cases 

 removed to the International Exhibition, and rearranging the collec- 

 tions, and for expenses and preservation of the collections, and for 

 receiving, packing, and transporting the objects presented to the 

 United States at the Centennial by State and foreign governments, 

 and for properly storing and preserving them until a proper disposi- 

 tion can be made of the same, $25,000. 



(Stat., XIX, 370.) 



PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION, 1876. 



February 16, 1876. 



Whereas by the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for the 

 celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of American independence 

 by holding an international exhibition of arts, manufacture, and products 

 of the soil and mine, in the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsyl- 

 vania, in the year 1876," approved March 3, 1875 [1871], provision 

 was made for the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the 

 declaration of American independence by "an exhibition of American 

 and foreign arts, products, and manufactures," to be "held under 

 the auspices of the Government of the United States, in the city of 

 Philadelphia, in the year 1876;" and 



Whereas by the act of Congress entitled "An act relative to the 

 Centennial International Exhibition to be held in the city of Philadel- 



