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1887— Act of March 3, 1887 ; 24 Stat. L., 509. (An act mak- 

 ing appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the 

 government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other 

 purposes.) 



Hereafter the estimates for the Geological Survey shall be item- 

 ized. 



1887 — Act of March 3, 1887; 24 Stat. L., 647. (Joint reso- 

 lution to distribute copies of special memoirs and 

 reports of the United States Geological Survey.) 



Resolved, etc., That there shall be distributed from the number of 

 special memoirs and reports of the United States Geological Survey 

 now authorized by law one copy of every such publication to every 

 public library which shall be designated to the Secretary of the In- 

 terior as follows : 



Two public libraries to be designated by each of the Senators from 

 the States, respectively, two public libraries by the Representative in 

 Congress from every Congressional district and two public libraries 

 by tiie Delegate from every Territory; such public libraries to be 

 additional to those to which the said publications are distributed under 

 existing law. 



1892 — Act of April 12, 1892 ; 27 Stat. L., 395. (Joint reso- 

 lution to encourage the establishment and endow- 

 ment of institutions of learning at the national cap- 

 ital by defining the policy of the government with 

 reference to the use of its literary and scientific col- 

 lections by students.) 



Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representative of the United 

 States of America, in Congress assembled, That the facilities for 

 research and illustration in the following and any other governmental 

 collections now existing or hereafter to be established in the city of 

 Washington for the promotion of knowledge shall be accessible, under 

 such rules and restrictions as the officers in charge of each collection 

 may prescribe, subject to such authority as is now or may hereafter 

 be permitted by law, to the scientific investigators and to students of 

 any institution of higher education now incorporated or hereafter to 

 be incorporated under the laws of Congress or of the District of 

 Columbia, to wit: 

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 Of the Geological Survey. 



