742 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



Chile, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, Netlierlands, 

 New South Wales, New Zealand, Norway, Orange Free State, Peru, Portugal, Queens- 

 land, Russia, Sandwich Islands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South Australia, Tas- 

 mania, Tunis, Turkey, Venezuela, Victoria. 



The value of these collections can scarcely l)e overestimated in an educational 

 point of view and as illustrations of special processes in the arts, and as they are jire- 

 sented through the Smithsonian Institution to the United States and will fill fifty 

 large freight cars, it must be evident that means should be provided by Congress for 

 boxing, packing, and transporting them to Washington. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM — APPROPRIATIONS. 

 July 31, 1876. 



Sundry civil act for 1877. 



For repairing and fitting^ up the so-called Armory building on the 

 Mall between Sixth and Seventh streets, and to enable the Smith- 

 sonian Institution to store therein and to take care of specimens of 

 the extensive series of the ores of the precious metals, marbles, building 

 stones, coals, and numerous objects of natural history now on exhibi- 

 tion in Philadelphia, including other objects of practical and econom- 

 ical value presented by various foreign governments to the National 

 Museum, $4,500: Provided, That the said sum shall be expended under 

 the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; and it 

 shall hereafter be the duty of all watchmen or policemen employed in 

 the grounds belonging to the United States to cooperate with the 

 Metropolitan police in enforcing the rules and regulations of the 

 board of Metropolitan police made in relation to the public works and 

 approved by said board. 



(Stat., XIX, 120.) 



July 31, 1876. 



Sundry civil act for 1877. 



Smithsonian Institution: For preservation of the collections of the 

 surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, $10,000. 



For fitting up apartments for mounting and photographing speci- 

 mens, $3,000. 



(Stat., XIX, 109.) 

 August 15, 1876. 



Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1877. 



For official postage stamps for the National Museum in the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, $1,000. 



(Stat, XIX, 163.) 

 March 2, 1877— Senate. 



The Senate having under consideration the sundry civil appropri- 

 ation bill, the next amendment was in line 486, under the head of 

 " Smithsonian Institution," to increase the appropriation " for preser- 

 vation and care of the collections of the National Museum" from 

 $13,000 to $25,000. 



Agreed to. 



