LIV ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National ^Museum, includ- 

 ing all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. 



For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the 

 National Museum, four thousand four hundred dollars. 



For postage stamj^s and foreign postal cards for the National 

 Museum, live hundred dollars. (Approved March 3, 1903; Statutes, 

 XXXII, 1101, 1102.) 



Building for National Museum: To enable the Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution to commence the erection of a suitable fire- 

 proof building with granite fronts, for the use of the National 

 Museum, to be erected on the north side of the Mall, between Ninth 

 and Twelfth streets northwest, substantially in accordance with the 

 Plan A, prepared and submitted to Congress by the secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution under the provisions of the act approved 

 June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and fifty 

 thousand dollars. Said building complete, including heating and ven- 

 tilating apparatus and elevators, shall cost not to exceed three million 

 live hundred thousand dollars, and a contract or contracts for its com- 

 pletion is hereby authorized to be entered into sul)ject to appropria- 

 tions to be made b}' Congress. The construction shall be in charge of 

 Bernard II. Green, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, Library 

 of Congress, who shall make the contracts herein authorized and dis- 

 burse all appropriations made for the work, and shall receive as full 

 compensation for his services hereunder the sum of two thousand dol- 

 lars annual!}' in addition to his present salary, to be paid out of said 

 appropriations. (Approved :\larch 3, 1903; Statutes, XXXII, 1102.) 



For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and 

 for the "Bulletins"' and ""Proceedings'' of the National ^Museum, the 

 editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and 

 binding, in half turkey, or material not more expensive, scientific 

 books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National 

 ]\luseum Library, seventeen thousand dollars. (Approved March 3j 

 1903; Statutes, XXXII, 1116.) 



For preservation of collections. National Museum, sixt}' cents. 

 (Approved March 3, I'M 13; Statutes, XXXII, 1()75.) 



INTERNATK )NAL EXCHANC4ES. 



For expenses of the S3'stem of international exchanges between the 

 United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, inchiding salaries or compensation of all necessary 

 employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, 

 twenty-six thousand dollars. (Approved March 3, 1903; Statutes, 

 XXXII, 1101.) 



