1674 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Nors.—The exchange service is maintained in part by direct appropriations to 
the Smithsonian Institution and in part by specific appropriations to Government 
Departments, or by payments from their contingent funds for the transportation of 
reports abroad. In the estimate of $23,000 it is sought to bring these items under a 
single head, to make proper compensation to the many trans-Atlantic steamship lines 
that have hitherto accorded to the Institution the privilege of free freight, and to 
carry into effect a special treaty for the ‘‘immediate exchange of parliamentary docu- 
ments,’’ for which no appropriation has yet been made. 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES—APPROPRIATIONS. 
February 3, 1894—House. 
Mr. JoserH D. Sayrrrs, from Committee on Appropriations, sub- 
mitted report (H. 348) on sundry civil bill for 1893 (H. 5575), which 
contained item: 
International exchanges: Appropriation for 1894, $14,500; estimate 
for 1895, $14,500; recommended for 1895, $17,000. 
July 31, 1894. 
Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1895. 
Library of Congress: For compensation of * * * 8 [assistant_ 
librarians] at $1,400 each, one of whom shall be in charge of interna- 
tional exchanges. 
For expenses of exchanging public documents for the publications 
of foreign governments, $1,500. 
[This pays one clerk at $900 and one clerk at $600. | 
(Stat., XXVIII, 168.) 
Naval Observatory: For repairs [ete.] * * * freight (including 
transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), 
foreign postage and expressage [etc. ], $2,500. 
(Stat. XXVIII, 192.) 
Patent Office: For purchase of professional and scientific books and 
expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent 
Office to foreign governments, $2,000. 
(Stat., XXVIII, 196.) 
August 18, 1894. 
Sundry civil act for 1895. 
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 at necessary 
employees, $17, 000. 
(Stat., XXVIII, 384.) 
Gatloviea Beeccy: For the purchase of necessary books for the 
library, and the payment for the anaes of public documents 
through the Smithsonian exchange, $2,000. 
(Stat., XXVIII, 398.) 
War apartment: For the transportation of reports and maps to 
foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, $100. 
(Stat., XXVIII, 405.) 
