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cost of the service has not been provided for by the Government. In fact, a careful 
investigation of the accounts shows that since the earlier date of January 1, 1868, to 
June 30, 1889, $45,175.82 was paid from the Smithsonian fund for work properly 
belonging to the General Government. 
At present the appropriation of $17,000 is made directly to the Institution for inter- 
national exchanges, and smaller sums, aggregating about $2,000, are granted to 
various bureaus to enable them to repay the Smithsonian Institution a portion of 
the cost of transporting their exchanges. It is the object of the increased estimate, 
now submitted, to unite the entire exchange appropriation in a single item, to pay 
the steamship companies for carrying the exchange boxes, thereby securing greater 
rapidity of transmission (exchange boxes are now carried free of freight charges by 
most of the ocean steamship lines), and to make the increase in clerical force 
demanded by the constantly increasing bulk of the exchanges. 
January 12, 1891—House. : 
Deficiency estimates for 1891. 
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treas- 
ury on account of international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution, 
being for the service of the fiscal year 1889, as follows: Union Pacific 
Railroad Company, $1.24; Central Pacific Railroad Company, $1.06; 
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, $0.66—$2. 96. 
February 27, 1891—Senate. 
Supplemental deficiency estimates by the Treasury Department for 1891. 
To pay the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company the amount found 
due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of interna- 
tional exchanges, Smithsonian Institution, being for the service of the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, $0.67. 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES—APPROPRIATIONS. 
July 11, 1890. 
Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1891. 
Library of Congress: For compensation of * * * 8 [assistant 
librarians] at $1,400 each, one of whom shall be in charge of interna- 
tionalexchanges * * * 
For expenses of Sach aiieiie public documents for the publications 
of foreign governments, $1,500. 
[This pays 1 clerk at $900 and 1 clerk at $600. | 
(Stat., XX VI, 234.) 
Naval Observatory: For repairs [etc.], * * * including pay- 
ment to Smithsonian Institution for freight on Observatory publica- 
tions sent to foreign countries, foreign postage, expressage [etc. |, 
$4,550. 
(Stat., X XVI, 255.) 
Patent Office: For purchase of books, and expenses of transporting 
publication of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign govern- 
ments, $3,000: Provided, That hereafter the Official Gazette may be 
exchanged for publications of a scientific or useful character published 
