Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress . ? II oo WA „ cc >£•??, O _i Q 2 ???•? o o HI 03 ???» iff??. _l _l < % I z ;ii«s O. Smithsonian Division. 271 send its publications abroad by this means as gifts orexchanges has them packed under .separately addressedcovers and shipped in bulk, prepaid, to the SmithsonianInstitution, where they are sorted into the cases whichare being prepared for transmission to the various foreignagencies. These to a certain extent are carried withoutcharge by the principal transportation companies, are admit-ted duty free at the ports where they are landed,
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress . ? II oo WA „ cc >£•??, O _i Q 2 ???•? o o HI 03 ???» iff??. _l _l < % I z ;ii«s O. Smithsonian Division. 271 send its publications abroad by this means as gifts orexchanges has them packed under .separately addressedcovers and shipped in bulk, prepaid, to the SmithsonianInstitution, where they are sorted into the cases whichare being prepared for transmission to the various foreignagencies. These to a certain extent are carried withoutcharge by the principal transportation companies, are admit-ted duty free at the ports where they are landed, and areconveyed to the agents who forward the separate packagesto their destinations. In the reverse order and on similarterms foreign publications are received at the different agen-cies for shipment to the Smithsonian Institution, whence theyare sent by mail, under frank, to the individual addresses inAmerica which they bear. The cost of this service is bornein part hy the Smithsonian funds, in part out of an annualappropriation by Congress—$24,000 for the last fiscal }^ear. Since 1867 the United States Government has set a
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