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sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 
employees, $15,000. 
(Stat., X XV, 529.) 
War Department: For the transportation of reports and maps to 
foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, $100. 
(Stat., XXV, 538.) 
February 26, 1889. 
Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1890. 
Library of Congress: For compensation of * * * assistant libra- 
rians, * * * eight, at $1,400 each, one of whom shall be in charge 
of international exchanges. 
% * * * * * % 
For expenses of exchanging public documents for the publications 
of foreign governments, $1,500. 
(Stat., XXV, 711.) 
(This pays one clerk at $900 and one clerk at $600.) 
Naval Observatory: For payment to Smithsonian Institution for 
freight on Observatory publications sent to foreign countries, $136. 
(Stat., X XV, 733.) 
Patent Office: For purchase of books and expenses of transporting 
publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign govern- 
ments, $3,000. 
(Stat., X XV, 737.) 
March 2, 1889. 
Sundry civil act for 1890. 
For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the 
United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 
employees, $15,000. 
(Stat., XXV, 952.) 
Geological Survey: For the purchase of necessary books for the 
library and the payment for the transmission of public documents 
through the Smithsonian exchange, $5,000. 
(Stat., X XV, 960.) 
War Department: For the transportation of reports and maps of 
foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, $100. 
(Stat., X XV, 970.) 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 
April 23, 1888—Senate. 
Mr. J. B. Brox introduced a bill (S. 2752): 
Be it enacted, etc., That, in order to establish a zoological park in the District of 
Columbia, for the adyancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the 
people, a commission shall be constituted, composed of three persons, namely, the 
