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(2) Purchase of Lands for State Common Schools

(Chapter 54, February 14, 1913.)

For the purchase of Indian lands to be donated to the several states named for common schools:

Sixteenth and thirty-sixth section in each township, Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North Dakota and South Dakota

(3) Bureau of Education

$180,000

(Chapter 142, March 4, 1913; Chapter 3, June 23, 1913.)

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101,000

$7,745,945

appropriation)

Columbia Institution for the Deaf.

Support

Repairs

(Chapter 3, June 23, 1913.)

Howard University (Chapter 3, June 23, 1913)
Total for Department of Interior

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(Chapter 142, March 4, 1913; Chapter 3, June 23, 1913.)

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1 Transferred to Department of Labor, Chapter 141, Sixty-second Congress, Third Session. March 4, 1913.

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National Zoological Park (one-half to be paid by District of

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Of the appropriation, $3,163,640, one-half is payable by the General Government, i.e. $1,581,820, and one-half by the District of Columbia.

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Name changed to, from Reform School for Girls of District of Columbia, Chapter 182, 62d Congress, June 26, 1912.

2. Special Appropriations by the United States Government to National and International Congresses. Scientific Associations, etc., for fiscal year ending June 30, 19141

International Geodetic Association

International Bureau of Weights and Measures

International Prison Commission

International Institute of Agriculture

International Railway Congress

$ 1,500.00

2,895.00 2,000.00 13,400.00

400.00

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International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

1,250.00

Bureau of Interparliamentary Union for the Promotion of
International Arbitration

2,500

International Congress on Alcoholism

4,500.00

Participation in Panama-Pacific International Exposition
International Bureau for the Publication of Customs

500,000.00

Tariffs

1,500.00

International Boundary Commission United States and
Mexico

25,000.00

International Bureau for the Suppression of the African
Slave Trade

125.00

Pan-American Union

75,000.00

(International Bureau of American Republics)

Permanent International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.

7,156.00

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aries and expenses)

International Rifle Match

National Bureau of Criminal Identification

Site and Building

Canadian Boundary Waters Commission (one-half of sal

American Red Cross

25,000.00 200.00 300,000.00

This tabulation does not include the cost of the issuance of the reports of different organizations and associations which have received special consideration in their articles of incorporation or otherwise. By the publication of the proceedings, reports, monographs, etc., the federal government grants a substantial annual aid to the American Historical Association, the National Academy of Science, and a number of other organizations.

Fiftieth Anniversary, Battle of Gettysburg, Transporta

tion of Civil War Soldiers

United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation, Railroad Controversies

Commission of Fine Arts

Commission on Industrial Relations

Lincoln Memorial Commission

International Waterways Commission

Commission to Study European Rural Credits

$ 4,000.00

25,000.00

5,000.00

100,000.00

300,000.00

15,000.00

25,000.00

3. Appropriations for the United States Department of Agriculture for fiscal year ending June 30, 1914

(Chapter 145, March 4, 1913; Chapter 3, June 23, 1913.)

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II. THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

By the terms of the bequest of an Englishman, James Smithson (1765-1829), the United States, in 1846, received in trust property amounting to nearly three quarters of a million dollars for the founding of "an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." Under this trust Congress established the Smithsonian Institution, which was placed in charge of a board of regents composed of the Vice President and Chief Justice of the United States, three members of the

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