ON BEHALF OF UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, PA., 1876, UNDER ACTS OF CONGRESS OF MARCH 3, 1875, AND MAY 1, 1876. This volume is Volume X of the series of Reports on the International Exhibition of 1876, WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. Page. REPORT ON PARTICIPATION OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT IN THE EXHIBITION.. Establishment of the War Department as an Executive Department...... Report on the Quartermaster's Department, U. S. Army, at the Exhibition. Report on the Medical Department, U. S. Army, at the Exhibition..................... 649 965 CATALOGUE OF THE ARTICLES AND OBJECTS EXHIBITED BY THE NAVY DE- REPORT OF THE PARTICIPATION OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT IN THE EX- CATALOGUE OF ARTICLES AND OBJECTS EXHIBITED BY THE POST-OFFICE DE- PARTMENT AT THE EXHIBITION, WITH HISTORY OF the Department, and 3 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING THE REPORT OF THE BOARD ON BEHALF OF INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. FEBRUARY 1, 1877.-Referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and ordered to be printed. FEBRUARY 1, 1877.-Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds discharged and referred to the Committee on Printing. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit, herewith, the catalogues and report of the Board on behalf of the Executive Departments at the International Exhibition of 1876, with their accompanying illustrations. The labors performed by the members of the Board, as evinced by the voluminous mass of information found in the various papers from the officers charged with their preparation, have been, in the highest degree, commendable; and believing that the publication of these papers will form an interesting memorial of the greatest of International Exhiitions, and of the Centennial Anniversary of the Independence of our country, I recommend that they be printed in a suitable form for disribution and preservation. The letter of the chairman of the Board will give to Congress the history of its organization, the laws and Executive orders under which has acted, and the steps which have been taken to preserve the large and instructive collections made, with a view to their forming a part of National Museum, should Congress make the necessary appropriations for such a desirable object. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 9, 1877. U. S. GRANT. 5 |