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of conducting all surveys of a scientific character under the War or 

 Interior Department, and the surveys of the Land Office, and to 

 report to Congress as soon thereafter as may be practicable a plan for 

 survejdng and mapping the Territories of the United States on such 

 general system as will, in their judgment, secure the best results at 

 the least possible cost; and also to recommend to Congress a suitable 

 plan for the publication and distribution of the reports, maps, and 

 documents, and other results of said surveys, not exceeding one acre 

 now occupied by them for a period of ten years unless otherwise pro- 

 vided by law at an annual rental of $1,000. 



(Stat., p. 230.) 



(See act of March 3, 1879, transferring ethnology to Smitnsonian 

 Institution. 



ETHNOLOGY CONTRIBUTIONS. 



December 4, 1878. Senate. 



Mr. DAVID DAVIS, of Illinois, offered concurrent resolution to print 

 3,000 copies of the report of the Geographical and Geological Survey 

 of the Rocky Mountain region, being Volume 2, contributions to North 

 American Ethnology, in quarto form; 1,500 for the House; 500 for 

 the Senate; 500 for the Survey; 500 for the Smithsonian Institution. 



Referred to Committee on Printing. 

 December 4, 1878. House. 



Mr. JOHN R. EDEN submitted concurrent resolution. 



(Same resolution as offered by Mr. Davis in Senate December 4, 



1878.) 



December 18, 1878 House. 



Passed for Volume II of Contributions to North American Ethnol- 

 ogy, 500 copies for Smithsonian Institution. 

 December 20, 1878 Senate. 



Passed with amendment to give 375 copies to the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 

 January 25, 1879 House. 



Passed as amended. 



LAND OFFICE MUSEUM. 

 January 16, 1879 House. 



Mr. O. D. CONGER offered bill (H. 5812) making compensation to 

 Mrs. Joseph S. Wilson, the widow of the late Joseph S. Wilson, for 

 collecting the scientific museum for the General Land Office. 1 



Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 



1 This museum was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution by the Secretary of 

 the Interior July 9, 1872. 



