ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. 



(In continuation of proceedings noted in previous reports.) 



[Fifty-fifth Congress, Second session.] 

 REGENTS OF SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Resolved by the Senate and Mouse of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancies in the Board of 

 Begents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Mem- 

 bers of Congress, shall be filled by the appointment of Alexander 

 Graham Bell, a resident of the city of Washington, in place of Gardiner 

 G. Hubbard, of the city of Washington, deceased; and by the reap- 

 pointment of John B. Henderson, a resident of the city of Washington, 

 and of William Preston Johnston, of Louisiana, whose terms of office 

 expire on January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. 

 (Approved January 24, 1898; Statutes of 1897-98, p. 733.) 



LEAVES OF ABSENCE; CONDITION OF BUSINESS. 



Sec. 7. That section five of the act making appropriations for legisla- 

 tive, executive, and judicial expenses, approved March third, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety- three, is hereby amended to read as follows : 



" Hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the several executive 

 departments, in the interest of the public service, to require of all 

 clerks and other employees, of whatever grade or class, in their respec- 

 tive departments, not less than seven hours of labor each day, except 

 Sundays and days declared public holidays by law or Executive order: 

 Provided, That the heads of the departments may, by special order, 

 stating the reason, further extend the hours of any clerk or employee 

 in their departments, respectively; but in case of an extension it shall 

 be without additional compensation : Provided further, That the head 

 of any department may grant thirty days' annual leave with pay in 

 anyone year to each clerk or employee: And provided further, That 

 where some member of the immediate family of a clerk or employee is 

 afflicted with a contagious disease and requires the care and attendance 

 of such employee, or where his or her presence in the department 

 would jeopardize the health of fellow-clerks, and in exceptional and 



