ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. 



(In continuation from previous reports.) 



[Fifty-third Congress, third session, December 3, 1894, to March 2, 1895.] 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



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

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

 Regents of the Smithsonian Institution other than Members of Con- 

 gress, caused by the death of James C. Welling, of the city of Wash- 

 ington, be filled by the appointment of Gardiner G. Hubbard, a citizen 

 of Washington, of the District of Columbia. (Joint resolution No. 21, 

 approved February 27, 1895, statutes of the Fifty-third Congress, p. 972.) 



Annual Report. — Of the Report of the Smithsonian Institution, ten 

 thousand copies — one thousand for the Senate, two thousand for the 

 House, five thousand for distribution by the Smithsonian Institution, 

 and two thousand for distribution by the National Museum. (Act pro- 

 viding for public printing and binding, approved January 12, 1895, 

 statutes of the Fifty-third Congress, p. 616.) 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 



For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the 

 United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 

 employees, seventeen thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation 

 act, approved March 2, 1895, statutes of the Fifty-third Congress, 

 p. 924.) 



United States Geological Survey. — For the purchase of necessary books 

 for the library, and the payment for the transmission of public docu- 

 ments through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand dollars. 

 (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved March 2, 1895, statutes of 

 the Fifty-third Congress, p. 940.) 



War Department. — For the transportation of reports and maps to 

 foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred 

 dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved March 2, 1895, 

 statutes of the Fifty- third Congress, p. 960.) 



Naval Observatory. — For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, fur- 

 niture, gas, chemicals, and stationery ; freight (including transmission 

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