the United States Government exhibit in the collection, preparation, packing, transportation, installation, and care while exhibited of articles loaned or donated by the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts in the several States for the display in the agricultural building of the exposition, of the means and methods of giving instruction in the so-called land-grant college of the United States, and for repacking and returning this property at the close of the exposition, the same to be taken from the sum apportioned to the Agricultural Department; and $10,000 additional for special expenses attending the naval exhibit of the model of a battle ship. World's Columbian Commission: For the World's Columbian Commission, $211,375, of which sum $93,190 shall be used for the Board of Lady Managers; and $25,000 of the last sum is hereby made imme- . diately available; and $10,000 of the appropriation for the Board of Lady Managers shall be paid in souvenir coins of the denomination of 25 cents, and for that purpose there shall be coined at the mints of the United States silver quarter dollars of the legal weight and fineness, not to exceed forty thousand pieces, the devices and designs upon which shall be prescribed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury; and said silver coins shall be manufactured from uncurrent subsidiary silver coins now in the Treasury; and all provisions of law relative to the coinage, legal-tender quality, and redemption of the present subsidiary silver coins shall be applicable to the coins herein authorized to be issued; and a sum not exceeding $5,000 may be used by the Director-General in his discretion for incidental and contingent expenses of his office. To enable said commission and the Board of Lady Managers to give effect to and execute the provisions of section 6 of the act of Congress approved April 25, 1890, authorizing the World's Columbian Exposition, and appropriating money therefor, relating to committees, judges, and examiners for the exposition, and the granting of awards, $570,880, or so much thereof as in the judgment of the Lady Managers may be necessary, of which sum $25,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That of this sum $100,000 shall be devoted to the payment of judges, examiners, and members of committees to be appointed by the Board of Lady Managers, as authorized by said section. And provided further, That said sum of $570,880 shall be a charge against the World's Columbian Exposition, and that of the moneys appropriated for the benefit of the World's Columbian Exposition, amounting to $2,500,000, under the act of August 5, 1892, $570,880 shall be retained by the Secretary of the Treasury until said World's Columbian Exposition shall have furnished, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, full and adequate security for the return and repayment, by said World's Columbian Exposition to the Treasury, of the sum of $570,880, on or before October 1, 1893; and until such security shall have been furnished by said World's Columbian Exposition, this appropriation, or any portion thereof, shall not be available. That section 3 of the act in aid of the Columbian Exposition, approved August 5, 1892, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. That not to exceed fifty thousand bronze medals and the necessary dies therefor, with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions commemorative of the said exposition celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, shall be prepared under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prepare plates and make therefrom not to exceed fifty thousand impressions for diplomas, at a total cost not to exceed $103,000. Said medals and diplomas shall be delivered to the World's Columbian Commission, to be awarded to exhibitors in accordance with the provisions of said act of Congress approved April 25, 1890, and there is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $103,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expenditures authorized by this section. And every person who within the United States or any Territory thereof, without lawful authority, makes, or willingly aids or assists in making, or causes or procures to be made, any dies, hub, plate, or mold, either in steel or of plaster, or any other substance whatsoever, in the likeness or similitude as to the design, or inscription thereon, of any die, hub, plate, or mold, designated for the striking of the medals and diplomas of award for the World's Columbian Exposition, as provided in section 3 of the act approved August 5, 1892, or conceals or shall have in his possession, any such die, hub, plate, or mold hereinbefore mentioned, with intent to fraudulently or unlawfully use the same for counterfeiting the medals and diplomas hereinbefore mentioned, or who shall fraudulently or unlawfully have in his possession or cause to be circulated any duplicate or counterfeit medal or diploma not authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, and be imprisoned at hard labor not more than ten years, or both, at the discretion of the court. (Stat., XXVII, 585.) March 3, 1893. Indian act for 1894. To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior to complete a suitable Indian exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, $25,000, to be immediately available. (Stat., XXVII, 634.) March 3, 1893. Post-Office act for 1894. That so much of the appropriation of $40,000 made by section 4 of the act of Congress approved June 13, 1892, making appropriations for the postal service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, for clerks, letter-carriers, and incidental expenses necessary to maintain a branch station of the Chicago (Illinois) post-office in the Government building upon the ground of the World's Columbian Exposition. (Stat., XXVII, 734.) March 3, 1893. Resolved, etc., That the Architect of the Capitol, with the approval of the Chief Justice, is hereby authorized to loan to the Department of Justice the portraits of the Chief Justices of the United States, for exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition. (Stat., XXVII, 757.) June 6, 1892. Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Act approved to enable the Centennial Board of Finance, incorporated by act of June 1, 1872, to close its affairs and dissolve the corporation, any unclaimed money to be paid to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, in Philadelphia. (Stat., XXVII, 45.) USE OF GOVERNMENT COLLECTIONS IN WASHINGTON BY STUDENTS. February 25, 1892-House. Mr. J. J. HEMPHILL introduced a joint resolution (H. 92). February 26, 1892-Senate. Mr. JAMES MCMILLAN introduced a joint resolution (S. 55). March 28, 1892-House. H. 92 passed. March 31, 1892-Senate. H. 92 passed. April 12, 1892. Joint resolution. Whereas large collections illustrative of the various arts and sciences and facilitating literary and scientific research have been accumulated by the action of Congress through a series of years at the national capital; and Whereas it was the original purpose of the Government thereby to promote research and the diffusion of knowledge, and is now the settled policy and present practice of those charged with the care of these collections specially to encourage students who devote their time to the investigation and study of any branch of knowledge by allowing them all proper use thereof; and Whereas it is represented that the enumeration of these facilities and the formal statement of this policy will encourage the establishment and endowment of institutions of learning at the seat of Government, and promote the work of education by attracting students to avail themselves of the advantages aforesaid under the direction of competent instructors: Therefore, Resolved, etc., That the facilities for research and illustration in the following and any other Governmental collections now existing or hereafter to be established in the city of Washington for the promotion of knowledge shall be accessible, under such rules and restrictions as the officers in charge of each collection may prescribe, subject to such authority as is now or may hereafter be permitted by law, to the scientific investigators and to students of any institution of higher education now incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated under the laws of Congress or of the District of Columbia, to wit: 1. Of the Library of Congress. 2. Of the National Museum. 3. Of the Patent Office. 4. Of the Bureau of Education. 5. Of the Bureau of Ethnology. 9. Of the Botanic Gardens. 10. Of the Coast and Geodetic Survey 11. Of the Geological Survey. 12. Of the Naval Observatory. (Stat., XXVII, 395). LIST OF EMPLOYEES. March 23, 1892-Senate. Mr. E. O. WOLCOTT submitted resolution directing heads of several Departments and of the other branches of public service in Washington to transmit lists of all their subordinates, names, legal residences, compensation, and duties, who were on the 1st of March, 1892, employed in Washington, not as laborers or workmen, nor as members of the classified civil service, and were not specifically authorized or appropriated for by law, but were appointed or employed according to the discretion of the official appointing or employing them, and paid from some general or special fund subject to his control, and lists of all persons employed or paid as laborers or workmen who have performed clerical or other higher duty. March 24, 1892-Senate. Mr. E. O. WOLCOTT modified his resolution offered March 23, to insert after the word "workmen" the words "or as printers, binders, or pieceworkers.” Adopted. April 5, 1892-Senate. The VICE-PRESIDENT (Mr. LEVI P. MORTON) presented a communication from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (S. Misc. Doc. 116): SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, SIR: In response to the Senate resolution of March 24, I beg leave to inclose herewith lists of the subordinates employed under the Smithsonian Institution on the 1st day of March, 1892, giving the State from which each was appointed or legal residence, the compensation per month, and nature of the duties. Persons employed as laborers are not included. There are none employed under the Smithsonian Institution and paid as laborers who have performed clerical or other higher duty. Hon. LEVI P. MORTON, Very respectfully, yours, S. P. LANGLEY, Secretary. President of the United States Senate, Washington, D. C. List of persons employed in Washington, D. C., except laborers and workmen; as called for by Senate resolution of March 24, 1892. |