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52d Congress, ) HOUSE OF KEPRESENTATIVES. ( Ex. Doc. 
1st Session. S \ No. 10. 
UNITED STATES BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES. 
MESSAGE 
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The report of the United States Board on Geographic Names. 

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January 5, 1892. — Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed. 
To the Senate and House of Representatives: 
My attention having been called to the necessity of bringing about 
a uniform usage and spelling of geographic names in the publications 
of the Government, the following executive order was issued on the 
4th day of September, 1890 : 
As it is desirable that uniform usage in regard to geographic nomenclature and 
orthography obtain throughout the Executive Departments of the Government, 
and particularly upon the maps' and charts issued by the various Departments and 
Bureaus, I hereby constitute a Board on Geographic Names, and designate the fol- 
lowing persons, who have heretofore cooperated for a similar purpose under the 
authority of the several Departments, bureaus, and institutions with which they are 
connected, as members of said Board: 
Prof. Thomas C. Mendenhall, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, chairman, 
Andrew H. Allen, Department of State. 
Capt. Henry L. Howison, Light-House Board, Treasury Department. 
Capt. Thomas Turtle, Engineer Corps, War Department. 
Lieut. Richardson Clover, Hydrographic Office, Navy Department. 
Pierson H. Bristow, Post-Office Department. 
Otis T. Mason, Smithsonian Institution. 
Herbert G. Ogden, U. S. Coast and Geodetic; Survey. 
Henry Gannett, U. S. Geological Survey. 
Marcus Baker, U. S. Geological Survey. 
To this Board shall be referred all unsettled questions concerning geographic 
names which arise in the Departments, and the decisions of the Board are to be ac- 
cepted by these Dejjartments as the standard authority in such matters. 
Department officers are instructed to atford such assistance as may be proper to 
carry on the work of this Board. 
The members of this Board shall serve without additional compensation, and its 
organization shall entail no expense on the Government. 
The report of the Board thus constituted has been submitted to me 
and is herewith transmitted for the information of Congress and with a 
view to its publication in suitable form, if such action is deemed by 
Congress to be desirable. 
IBenj. Harrison. 
Executive Mansion, December 23, 1891, 
