ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC.

(In continuation from previous reports.)

[Fifty-fourth Congress, first session, December 2, 1895, to June 11, 1896.]

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, of the class other than Members of Congress, shall be filled by the appointment of William L. Wilson, of the State of West Virginia, in place of Henry Coppée, deceased. (Joint Resolution, approved January 14, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, p. 461.)

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES.

International Exchanges. For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign.countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, nineteen thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 11, 1896, Statutes of the Fiftyfourth Congress, p. 425.)

United States Geological Survey.-For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 11, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, p. 436.)

War Department.-For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 11, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, p. 444.)

Naval Observatory.-For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery; freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange); foreign postage and expressage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. (Legislative, executive, and judi cial appropriation act, approved May 28, 1896, Statutes of the Fiftyfourth Congress, p. 166.)

Patent Office. For purchase of professional and scientific books, and expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, two thousand dollars. (Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act, approved May 28, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, p. 170.)

NATIONAL MUSEUM.

For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safekeeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifteen thousand dollars.

For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum, thirteen thousand dollars.

For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and fifty-three thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including all necessary labor and material, four thousand dollars.

For rent of workshops for the National Museum, two thousand dollars.

For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars.

For the erection of galleries in two or more halls of the National Museum building, said galleries to be constructed of iron beams, supported by iron pillars, and protected by iron railings, and provided with suitable staircases, the work to be done under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, and in accordance with the approval of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, eight thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 11, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, page 425.)

Public Printing and Binding.-For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and for the "Bulletins" and annual volumes of the "Proceedings" of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and binding scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, twelve thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 11, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, p. 453.)

To enable the National Museum to refund to the Honorable A. D. Straus, consul-general of the Republic of Nicaragua at New York, the amount expended by him in connection with the transportation of a collection of antique pottery to Washington city, said collection being the gift of the President of the Republic of Nicaragua to the National Museum, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and

ninety-five, one hundred and twenty dollars. (Deficiency appropriation act, approved June 8, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, p. 279.)

NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY.

For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty-five thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand dollars may be used for rent of building. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 11,7 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, p. 425.)

Claims allowed by the Auditor of the Treasury Department.-For North American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, four dollars and seventy-seven cents. (Deficiency appropriation act, approved June 8, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, p. 307.)

ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY.

For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, apparatus, and miscellaneous expenses, ten thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 11, 1896, Statutes of the Fiftyfourth Congress, p. 425.

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK.

For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage, and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds, erecting, and repairing buildings and inclosures, care, subsistence, transportation of animals, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, sixty-seven thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States; and of the sum hereby appropriated five thousand dollars shall be used for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park from Woodley lane, and opening driveway into Zoological Park from said entrance along the bank of Rock Creek, and five thousand dollars shall be used toward the construction of a road from the Holt Mansion entrance (on Adams Mill road) into the park to connect with the roads now in existence, including a bridge across Rock Creek. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 11, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, p. 425.)

For repairs to the Holt Mansion, to make the same suitable for occupancy, and for office furniture, including the accounts set forth hereunder in House Document numbered Three hundred and twenty-four of this session, four hundred and twenty-six dollars and fifty-seven

cents.

To reimburse the Smithsonian fund for assuming the expenses of labor and materials for repairs urgently necessary for the preservation of the Holt Mansion, including the accounts set forth hereunder in House Document numbered Three hundred and twenty-four of this session, four hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty-five cents. (Deficiency appropriation act, approved June 8, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, p. 279.)

OMAHA EXPOSITION.

CHAP. 402.-An Act To authorize and encourage the holding of a transmississippi and international exposition at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

Whereas it is desirable to encourage the holding of a transmississippi and international exposition at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the exhibition of the resources of the United States of America and the progress and civilization of the Western Hemisphere, and for a display of the arts, industries, manufactures, and products of the soil, mine, and sea; and

Whereas it is desirable that an exhibition shall be made of the great staples of the transmississippi region which contributes so largely to domestic and international commerce; and

Whereas encouragement should be given to an exhibit of the arts, industries, manufactures, and products, illustrative of the progress and development of that and other sections of the country; and

Whereas such exhibition should be national as well as international in its character, in which the people of this country, of Mexico, the Central and South American Governments, and other States of the world should participate, and should, therefore, have the sanction of the Congress of the United States; and

Whereas it is desirable and will be highly beneficial to bring together at such an exposition, to be held at a central position in the western part of the United States, the people of the United States and other States of this continent; and

Whereas the Transmississippi and International Exposition Association has undertaken to hold such exposition, beginning on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and closing on the first day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a transmississippi and international exposition shall be held at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, under the auspices of the Transmississippi and International Exposition Association: Provided, That the United States shall not be liable for any of the expense attending or incident to such exposition, nor by reason of the same,