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Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution, Armory Building, 1878. 



" For fitting up the Armory Building for storage of articles 

 belonging to the United States, including those trans- 

 ferred from the International Exhibition, and expense of 

 watching the same" $2, 500 00 



Ifational Museum, Smithsonian Institution. 



'' For the National Museum in charge of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, for restoring to their proper place in the 

 National Museum cases removed to the luternational 

 Exhibition, and rearranging the collections, and for ex- 

 penses and preservation of the collections, aud for receiv- 

 ing, packing, and transporting the objects presented to 

 the United States at the Centennial by State and foreign 

 governments, and for i^roperly storing and preserving 

 them until a proper disposition can be made of the same." 

 Act March 3, 1877. (Digest of Appropriations, 1878, page 

 86.) $35, 000 00 



The total receipts of the Museum for the year 1877 have therefore 

 been — 

 Preservation account, for fiscal year ending June 30, 1877 



(balance) $4, 909 14 



Armory account, for fiscal year ending June 30, 1877 (bal- 

 ance) 583 77 



Preservation account, for fiscal year ending June 30, 1878. L'3, 000 00 



Armory account, for fiscal year ending June 30, 1878 2, 500 00 



National Museum (return of Centennial collections, &c.), 

 for fiscal year ending June 30, 1878 25, 000 00 



$55,992 91 

 Expended during six mouths ending June 30, 1877 : 



Preservation ... $4, 909 14 



Armory 583 77 



$5,492 91 



Expended during six months ending Decem- 

 ber 31, 1877 : 



" Preservation " $11, G76 79 



"Armory " 1, Oil 75 



^'National Museum" 22,959 10 



$41, 140 55 



Balance January 8, 1878, to the credit of the Museum, to 

 defray expenses of the collections for the six months end- 

 ing June 30, 1878 ... : $14,853 36 



