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for the Museum (070,000 .square feet) there remain a])pi-().\imatclv 

 ■187,000 square feet to be provided for in a new buildino-. 



The facts on which the aljove remarks are l)ased having- been sub- 

 mitted to Congress in connection with the estimates for 1902-3, th(^ 

 following- item was included in the sundry civil appropriation act 

 approved June 28, 1902: 



For the preparation, under the direction of the Secretary of the SniitliHoniau Insti- 

 tution, of preliminary plans for an additional fireproof, steel frame, l)rick and terra- 

 cotta building, to cost not exceeding one million five hundred tliousand dollarn, fur 

 the United States National ]\fuseum, to be erected when appropriated for, on the Mall, 

 between Ninth and Twelfth streets west, said jilanswhen completed to be transmitted 

 by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to Congress, five thousand dollars. 



It is hoped that through this initial enactment a period of greater 

 prosperity for the Museum i-< about to ensue. 

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