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careful consideration of the subject, as being- absoluteh' necessary to 

 accomplish the work on a proper scale: 



Original estimates of board. 



Interior Department $211, 000 



Treasury Department 5, 000 



Post-Office Department 5, 000 



Agricultural Department 50, 000 



Smithsonian Institution 100, 000 



War Department 200, 000 



Navy Department 150, 000 



Add for show cases, shelving, incidentals, etc 50, 000 



For a separate building, capable of removal to Washington after the close 

 of the exhibition, to be used as a national museum at the capital of the 



nation 200, 000 



971, 000 



Amount actually appropriated. — These estimates were reduced by 

 the Committee on Appropriations to the following, which was oassed 

 without opposition from any quarter: 



War Department $133, 000 



Navy Department -. 100, 000 



Interior Department 115, 000 



Treasury Department 5, 000 



Post-Office Department 5, 000 



Agricultural Department 50, 000 



Smithsonian Institution 67, 000 



United States Commission of Food-Fishes 5, 000 



For show cases, shelving, stationery, postage, telegrams, expressage, and 



incidentals 25, 000 



505, 000 



Authority was also given in the enactment to erect any building or 

 part of a building that might be necessary, to be "paid for pro rata 

 out of the sums appropriated to the several departments, the United 

 States Commission of Food-Fishes, the Treasury and Post-OfEce De- 

 partments excepted, the cost of the building not to exceed $150,000, 

 said building to be sold at the close of the exhibition and the proceeds 

 covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts." 



Authority was also given to the heads of the several Executive 

 Departments to display at the exhibition, under such conditions as 

 the}^ might prescribe, all such articles in store or under the control of 

 such departments as might be necessary or desirable to render the col 

 lection complete and exhaustive, but the board were forbidden to 

 expend any larger sum than was set down for each department or to 

 enter into any contract or engagement that should result in any such 

 increased expenditure. * * * 



Referred to Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 



