LVIIl ACTS AND KESOLUTIONS OF CONGREHS. 



twentv-four thousaiul dollars. (Approved March 3, 1901; Statutes, 

 XXXI, 1U(>.) 



Treasury Department, Continc4ent Expenses. — To pa^- the 

 account of the Smithsonian Institution for the transmission of mail 

 matter for the Treasury Department for the fiscal years as follows: 



For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and forty- 

 four dollars and five cents. 



For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, four hundred and fifty-three 

 dollars and fifty cents. (Approved March 3, 1901; Statutes, XXXI, 

 1012.) 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhi- 

 bition and safe-keeping- of the collections of the National Museum, 

 including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty 

 thousand dollars. 



For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and tele- 

 phonic service for the National Museum, including five thousand dol- 

 lars for electric installation, twenty-three thousand dollars. 



For removing old boilers in the National Museum building, and for 

 the purchase and installation of new boilers, including material and 

 labor for necessary alterations and connections, twelve thousand five 

 hundred dollars. 



For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the col- 

 lections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Govern- 

 ment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of 

 all necessary employees, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, of 

 which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for neces- 

 sary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National 

 Museum; and all other necessary incidental expenses. 



For purchase of specimens to supply deficiencies in the collections 

 of the National Museum, ten thousand dollars. 



For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in 

 the National Museum, two thousand dollars. 



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

 ing all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. 



For construction of two galleries in the National Museum building, 

 five thousand dollars. 



For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the 

 National Museum, four thousand four hundred dollars. 



For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National 

 Museum, five hundred dollars. (Approved March 3, 1901; Statutes, 

 XXXI, 1147.) 



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

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



