ADDENDA. 
THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS, 1849-1851, SPECIAL SESSION, SENATE. 
APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS. 
By the Vice-President. 
March 6, 1849—Senate. 
James M. Mason was appointed by the Vice-President (Mr. Mi~tiarp 
Fittmore) to fill the vacancy in the Board of Regents, vice Sidney 
Breese, whose term had expired. 
THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, 1861-1863. 
EXPOSITIONS. 
London. 
July 27, 1861. 
Joint resolution. 
Resolved, etc., That the President be, and he hereby is, authorized 
to take such measures as shall to him seem best to facilitate a proper 
representation of the industrial interests of the United States at the 
exhibition of the industry of all nations to be holden at London in 
the year 1862; and the sum of $2,000 is hereby appropriated for the 
incidental expenses thereof. 
(Stat., XII, 328.) 
THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS, 1865-1867. 
APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS. 
By the Speaker. 
December 21, 1865—House. 
The SpeaKeER (Mr. SchuyLER CoLFAx) announced that he had 
appointed as Regents of the Smithsonian Institution on the part of the 
House from and after the 27th of December, 1865, James W. Patter- 
son, of New Hampshire, John F. Farnsworth, of Illinois, and James 
A. Garfield, of Ohio. 
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