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The typical extinction curve for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), in contrast to that for the Galaxy, has no bump at 2175Å and has a steeper rise into the far ultraviolet. For the Galaxy the interpretation of the extinction and, therefore, the dust content of the interstellar medium has been greatly assisted by measurements of the wavelength dependence of the polarization. To the present no such measurements existed for the SMC.Therefore, to further elucidate the dust properties in the SMC we have for the first time measured linear polarization in five colors in the optical region of the spectrum Each star has been observed, sometimes more than once, in each of the two wavelength ranges. The reductions were made using the RDAF and IUEIDL packages at the University of

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