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!884 — Act of July 5, 1884; 23 Stat. L., 11 1. (An act making 

 appropriations for the support of the army for the 

 fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred 

 and eighty-five, and for other purposes.) 



Provided also, That hereafter the Quartermaster-General and his 

 officers, under his instructions, wherever stationed, shall receive, trans- 

 port, and be responsible for all property turned over to them, or any- 

 one of them, by the officers or agents of any Government survey, for 

 the National Museum, or for the civil or naval departments of the 

 Government, in Washington or elsewhere, under the regulations gov- 

 erning the transportation of Army supplies, the amount paid for such 

 transportation to be refunded or paid by the Bureau to which such 

 property or stores pertain. 



1884— Act of July 7, 1884; 23 Stat. L, 194. (An act mak- 

 ing appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the 

 government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other pur- 

 poses.) 



And the scientific employees of the Geological Survey shall be 

 selected by the Director, subject to the approval of the Secretary of 

 the Interior, exclusively for their qualifications as professional ex- 

 perts. 



1886 — Act of August 4, 1886; 24 Stat. L., 255. (An act 

 making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of 

 the government for the fiscal year ending June thir- 

 tieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for 

 other purposes.) 



And hereafter the scientific reports known as the monographs and 

 bulletins of the Geological Survey shall not be published until specific 

 and detailed estimates are made therefor, and specific appropriations 

 made in pursuance of such estimates ; and no engraving for the annual 

 reports or for such monographs and bulletins, or of illustrations, sec- 

 tions, and maps, shall be done until specific estimates are submitted 

 therefor and specific appropriations made based on such estimates: 

 Provided further, That all printing and engraving for the Geological 

 Survey, and Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Hydrographic office of 

 the Navy Department, and the Signal Service shall hereafter be esti- 

 mated for separately and in detail, and appropriated for separately for 

 each of said Bureaus. 1 



1 The provisions of the above act from the words "the scientific reports 

 "known, etc.," to the words "based on such estimates" were reenacted in 

 the act of January 12, 1895; 2 8 Stat. L., 621. 



