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Page viii - of the Smithsonian Institution, to be composed of the VicePrésident, the Chief Justice of the United States, [and the Governor of the District of Columbia,] three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Eepresentatives,
Page viii - together with six other persons, other than members of Congress, two of whom shall be resident in the city of Washington, and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of them of the same State.
Page vii - to the volume 811 REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. By the organizing act approved August 10, 1846, Revised Statutes, title Ixxiii, section 5580, " The business of the Institution shall be conducted at the city of Washington by a Board of Regents, named the
Page 183 - thousand dollars, or so mach thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to place a flooring of marble and encaustic tiles in the large halls of the National Museum building, to be expended according to plans and under the direction of the building commission of the Board of
Page 181 - 6. That for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, it shall be the duty of each of the executive departments of the United States to provide for itself and its subordinate offices, the necessary envelopes ; and, in addition to the endorsement designating the department in which they are to be used, the penalty
Page 182 - the provisions of said fifth and sixth sections are hereby likewise extended and made applicable to .all official mail matter sent from the Smithsonian Institution. Approved March 3, 1879. (Eevised Statutes, supplement, vol. 1, page 458.) JOINT RESOLUTION [No. 22] providing for the distribution and sale of the new edition of the Revised Statutes of
Page 25 - 1872.) 4to, 38 pp., G wood-cuts. 4. On the internal structure of the earth, considered as affecting the phenomena of precession and nutation ; supplementary to an article under the above head in Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vol. XIX., No. 240, being the third of the problems of rotary motion. By
Page 184 - for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, and for other purposes. Naval Observatory.—For payment to the Smithsoniam Institution for freight on Observatory publications to be shipped to foreign countries during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, three hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. Approved February 23, 1881. (Statutes, vol. 21, page 333.) CHAP.
Page 171 - •vouchers for payments made from appropriations by Congress for the National Museum, making a total of 2,706 vouchers. All these bear the approval of the Secretary of the Institution and a certificate that the materials and services charged were applied to the purposes of the Institution or of the Museum. The Committee has
Page 79 - Paper. Life-Saving Service: Annual report for the year ending June 30,1880. 8vo. Paper. Bureau of the Mint : » General instructions and regulations in relation to the transaction of business at the mints and assay offices of the United States. 8vo. Paper. Internal Eevenue