ACTS AND RESOLUTION'S OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO 

 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, ETC. 



[Continued from previous Reports.] 



[Fifty-seventh Congress, first session.] 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Smithsonian Deposit [Library of Congress]. — For custodian, 

 one thousand tive hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand two 

 hundred dollars; one messencrer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; 

 one messenger bo3% three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thou- 

 sand seven hundred and eighty dollars. (Approved April 28, 1902; 

 Statutes, XXXII, 130.) 



Exchange of Public Documents [Library of Congress]. — For 

 expenses of exchanging public documents for the publications of for- 

 eign governments, one thousand eight hundred dollars. (Approved 

 April 28, 1902; Statutes, XXXII, 131.) 



international exchanges. 



International Exchanges. — For expenses of the system of inter- 

 national exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, 

 under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries 

 or compensation of all necessarv emplovees, and the purchase of neces- 

 sary books and periodicals, twenty-six thousand dollars. (Approved 

 June 28, 1902; Statutes, XXXII, 439.) 



Nayal Observatory. — For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and 

 fences, furniture, gas, chemicals and stationer}-, freight (including 

 transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), 

 foreign postage and expressage, plants, fertilizers, and all contingent 

 expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. (Approved April 28, 

 1902; Statutes, XXXII, 155.) 



Geological Survey. — For the purchase of necessaiy books for the 

 library, including directories and professional and scientific period- 

 icals needed for statistical purposes, and not exceeding four thousand 

 dollars for the payment for the transmission of pul)li(! documents 

 through the Smithsonian exchange, six thousand dollars: Provided^ 

 That the purchase of professional and scientific books and period- 



