ACTS AND EE SOLUTIONS OF CONGEESS EELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. 



IN CONTINUATION FROM PREVIOUS REPORTS. 

 NATIONAL, MUSEUM. 



Furniture and fixtures, National Museum: To pay sundry bills for 

 miscellaneous fixtures and for glass for exhibition cases for the National 

 Museum, being for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two thousand eight hundred and 

 ninety-one dollars and forty-two cents. 



Preservation of collections, National Museum : To meet expenses of 

 receiving, packing, transporting to Washington, and installing or stor- 

 ing such new specimens and collections as may be presented to the 

 United States at the New Orleans Exposition, to be available for the 

 fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-six, five thousand dollars. 



For cost of restoring the collections sent to the New Orleans Expo- 

 sition to their proper places in the National Museum, including repair 

 of cases and renewal of glass, to be available for the fiscal years end- 

 ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and eighteen hun- 

 dred and eighty-six, two thousand five hundred dollars. 



(Act to supply deficiencies, &c. Approved March 3, 1885, chapter 359, 

 page 463.) 



For heating and lighting the National Museum : For expense of heat- 

 ing, lighting, and telephonic and electrical service for the new Museum 

 building, nine thousand dollars. 



For the preservation of collections of the National Museum : For the 

 preservation and exhibition and increase of the collections received from 

 the surveying and exploring expeditious of the Government, and other 

 sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employes, 

 ninety-five thousand dollars. 



For the preservation of collections of the National Museum in the 

 Armory building: For care of the Armory building and grounds, and 

 expense of watching, preservation, and storage of the property of the 

 National Museum and of the United States Fish Commission contained 

 therein, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employes, 

 two thousand five hundred dollars. 



For furniture and fixtures of the National Museum : For cases, furni- 

 ture, and fixtures required for the exhibition of the collections of the 



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