Lee CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Executive Departments of the Government, and the Bureau of Agri- 
culture, and the Smithsonian Institution, including the National 
Museum and the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, to participate in 
the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, 
to be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, from July 4 to October [2]7, 1888,” 
that the President of the United States may, in his discretion, make 
an order directing that any documents, papers, maps not original, 
books or other exhibits which properly and pertinently relate to the 
establishment of civil government in the territory northwest of the . 
Ohio River, may be sent upon an Executive order from any of the 
several departments in said act named, or from the exhibits now at 
Cincinnati, and that the appropriation of money in said act to defray the 
expenses of such exhibits may be made applicable, in so far as the Pres- 
ident of the United States may direct, to the payment of the expenses. 
of the care, transportation to, and return of such exhibits from Mari- 
etta. And the same shall be paid from such fund heretofore set apart 
for each department as the President may order. Nor shall anything 
in said act be so construed as to prevent the purchase of suitable mate- 
rials and the employment of proper persons to complete or modify 
series of objects and classes of specimens when in the judgment of the 
head of any department such purchase or employment or both is nec- 
essary in the proper preparation and conduct of an exhibit. Nor to 
authorize the removal from their places of deposit in Washington of 
any original paper or document or laws or ordinances whatever. 
(Stat., XXV, 626.) 
October 20, 1888. 
Joint resolution. 
Resolved, etc., That authority is hereby granted to continue until 
and including November 15, 1888, the exhibits made by the Govern- 
ment at the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central 
States, at Cincinnati, Ohio, under authority of the act approved May 
28, 1888. 
(Stat., XXV, 634.) 
Marietta Exposition. 
(See Cincinnati Exposition.) 
ETHNOLOGY—BULLETINS. 
January 9, 1888—House. 
Mr. A. G. Carutu introduced a joint resolution (H. 50): 
That there be printed at the Government Printing Office 6,000 copies of any matter 
furnished by the Bureau of Ethnology relating to researches and discoveries con- 
nected with the study of the North American Indians; the same to be issued in parts 
