THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS, 1865-67. 707 



Resolved, $c., That fifty copies of all documents hereafter printed by 

 order of either House of Congress, and fifty copies additional of all docu- 

 ments 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 countries, and especially by foreign gov- 

 ernments, as may be deemed by said committee an equivalent ; said works 

 to be deposited in the library of Congress. 



February 26, 1867. Annual report of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, for 1866, was presented. 



Mr. TRUMBULL moved that 5,000 extra copies be printed. 



March 1, 1867. Mr. ANTHONY, from the Committee on 

 Printing, offered the following resolution ; which was 

 agreed to : 



Resolved, That 5,000 additional copies of the report of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, for the year 1866, be printed ; 2,000 for the use of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and 3,000 for the use of the Senate; and that said report 

 be stereotyped : Provided, That the aggregate number of pages contained 

 in said report shall not exceed 450, without wood-cuts or plates, except 

 those furnished bv the institution. 



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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, March 9, 1866. 



Air. PATTERSON introduced a bill for the transfer of the 

 Smithsonian library, which was referred to the Joint Com- 

 mittee on the Library. 



April 2, 1866. On motion of Mr. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, 

 by unanimous consent, Senate bill to provide for the trans- 

 fer of the custody of the library of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution to the library of Congress, was taken from the 

 Speaker's table, and read a first and second time. 



Mr. HAYES. The Committee on the Library recommend 

 the passage of the bill. 



The bill was ordered to a third reading ; and it was ac- 

 cordingly read the third time, and passed. 



Mr. HAYES moved to reconsider the vote by which it was 

 passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid 

 upon the table. 



The latter motion was agreed to. 



The bill is as follows : 



Be it enacted, $c., That the library collected by the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion under the provisions of an act approved August tenth, eighteen hun- 

 dred and forty-six, shall be removed from the building of said institution, 

 with the consent of the regents thereof, to the new fire-proof extension of 

 the library of Congress, upon completion of a sufficient portion thereof for 

 its accommodation, and shall, while there deposited, be subject to the same 

 regulations as the library of Congress, except as hereinafter provided. 



SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when such library shall have been 

 so removed and deposited, the Smithsonian Institution shall have the use 

 thereof in like manner as it is now used, and the public shall have access thereto 

 for purposes of consultation on every ordinary week day except during one 



