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sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 
employees, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, 
$5,000. 
Norr.—The reduction of the appropriation granted for the current year has ren- 
dered it necessary to drop from the rolls nearly one-half of the regular employees, 
and in consequence the records have fallen behind and the efficiency of the bureau ~ 
is impaired. Further reduction of the employees will be necessary to meet the 
reduced appropriation, and it will be impossible to handle all of the documents for- 
warded to the Bureau for transmission unless-early relief be afforded by Congress. 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES—APPROPRIATIONS. 
July 16, 1892. 
Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1893. 
Library of Congress: For compensation of * * * 8 [assistant 
librarians], at $1,400 each, one of whom shall be in charge of inter- 
national exchanges * * * 
For expenses of exchanging ie documents for the publications 
of foreign governments, $1,500. 
[This pays 1 clerk at $900 and 1 clerk at $600. | 
(Stat., XX VIT, 189.) 
Naval Observatory: For repairs [ete.], * * * freight, including 
transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, 
foreign postage, expressage, [etc.], $2,500. 
(Stat., XX VII, 211.) 
Patent Office: For purchase of professional and scientific books and 
expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent 
Office to foreign governments, $2,500. 
(Stat., X XVII, 215.) 
July 28, 1892. 
Deficiency act for 1892, etc. 
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treas- 
ury on account of international exchange, Smithsonian Institution, 
being for the service of the fiscal year 1890, as follows: 
To pay the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company $0.67. 
(Stat., X XVII, 283.) 
August 5, 1892. 
Sundry civil act for 1893. 
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, $12,000. 
(Stat., XX VII, 360.) 
Geological Survey: For the purchase of necessary books for the 
