FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1895-1897. 1707 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United 
States of America to be affixed. 
Done at the City of Washington this 15th day of January, in the year of our Lord 
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and of the Independence of the United 
States the one hundred and thirteenth. 
[SEAL. ] GROVER CLEVELAND, 
By the President: 
T. F. Bayarp, 
Secretary of State. 
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations. 
December 7, 1896—House. 
Estimates for 1898. 
For the expenses of the system of international exchanges between 
the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the 
Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all nec- 
essary employees, $23,000. 
Nore.—An appropriation of $19,000 is now made to the Smithsonian Institution 
‘for international exchanges. The present estimate of $23,000 is intended to improve 
the facilities for prompt delivery of exchange packages and to provide for the fulfill- 
ment of the Brussels treaty, concluded March 15, 1886, and proclaimed January 15, 
1889, providing for the immediate exchange of parliamentary documents, an appro- 
priation of $2,000 for which was recommended in a letter from the Secretary of State 
to the Secretary of the Treasury, embodied in H. Doc. No. 114, Fifty-fourth Congress, 
first session, but which has not been made effective. 
Patent Office: Foreign exchanges, and transporting patents and 
other publications, $2,000. 
Nortre.—By the act of July 31, 1886, the appropriation for the Scientific Library and 
for expense of transporting publications of patents to foreign governments were con- 
solidated. Prior to this $3,000 was appropriated for the library and $2,000 for trans- 
portation expenses, but under this act only $3,000 was appropriated for both purposes. 
The appropriation for each should be distinct and separate. The Patent Office is 
frequently compelled to decline valuable foreign exchanges because of insufficient 
appropriation to pay transportation. Many of these foreign publications would be 
of great value in the examination of pending applications, and the necessary funds 
should be furnished this office to enable it to accept such of these foreign exchanges 
as are required for its work. 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES—APPROPRIATIONS. 
May 28, 1896. 
Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1897. 
Library of Congress: For * * * 8 [assistant librarians] 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. 
[This pays one clerk at $900 and one clerk at $600. | 
(Stat., X XTX, 146.) 
Naval Observatory: For repairs [ete.], freight (including transmis- 
