ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. 



IX CONTINUATION FROM PREVIOUS REPORTS. 



APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1882. 



Furniture and fixtures, N'ational Museum — To expedite the work of 

 constructing the exliibition cases in the new building for tbe National 

 Museum during the present fiscal year, thirty thousand dollars. 



(Deficiency appropriation act, March 6, 1882. Statutes, xxii, p. 10.) 



Fire-proof builcling for National Museum. — To pay Thomas J. Hobbs 

 for disbursing the appropriations for the construction of the ^National 

 Museum building, under appointment of the Secretary of the Treasury 

 of March 28, 1879, two hundred and fifty dollars, in full satisfaction 

 therefor. 



(Deficiency appropriation act, August 5, 1882. Statutes, xxii, p. 274.) 



APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1883. 



Preservation of collections, National Museum. — For expense of heating, 

 lighting, and telephonic and electrical service for the new Museum build- 

 ing, six thousand dollars ; for the preservation and exhibition of the col- 

 lections received from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the 

 Government, and other sources, including salaries or compensation of 

 all necessary employes, seventy-five thousand dollars; for expense of 

 transferring to Washington the collections presented to the United 

 States at the close of the Permanent International Exhibition, in Phila- 

 delphia, including necessary expenses already incurred for the purpose, 

 ten thousand dollars. Total, ninety-one thousand dollars. 



(Sundry civil appropriation act, August 7, 1882. Statutes, xxii, pp. 

 332, 333.)*^ 



Armory building. — For care of the Armory building and expense of 

 watching, preservation, and storage of the duplicate collections of the 

 Government and of projierty of the United States Fish Commission 

 contained therein, including salaries or comi)en8ation of all necessary 

 employes, two thousand five hundred dollars, and the distribution of 

 duplicate specimens of the National Museum and Fish Commission may 

 bo made to colleges, academies, and other institutions of learning, upon 



£64 



