838 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



October 7, 1880. 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, October 7, 1880. 

 ' Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your circular of September 

 30, instructing me to report to the Department estimates of the amounts that will be 

 required for postage and for printing and binding for the National Museum during 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882. 



For postage: Stamps are desired of different values to the amount of $1,000, as in 

 previous years. 



For printing and binding: For printing labels, circulars, and blanks for the service 

 of the National Museum, $4,000. For printing "Bulletins" and "Proceedings of the 

 National Museum," $10,000. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Spencer F. Baird, 

 Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 

 Hon. Carl Schurz, 



Secretary of tlie Interior. 



December 6, 1880 — House. 



Estimates for 1882, 



For cases, furniture, and fixtures required for the exhibition of the 

 collections of geology, mineralogy, natural history, ethnology, tech- 

 nology, etc., belonging to the United States, $75,000. 



For expense of heating, lighting, telephonic and electrical service 

 for the new Museum building, $6,000. 



For the preservation and care of the collections of the surveying 

 and exploring expeditions of the Government, $55,000. 



Armory building: For watching, care, and storage of duplicate 

 Government collections and of property of the U. S. Fish Commission, 

 Armory building, $2,500. 



December 21, 1880. 



National Museum Building Commission, 



Office of Smithsonian Institution, 



Washington, D. C, December ^1, 1880. 

 Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith an estimate for a deficiency in the 

 appropriation for the sewer of the National Museum building, and to request that it 

 be introduced, if possible, into the pending bill. 

 Respectfully, yours, 



Spencer F. Baird. 

 Hon. John Sherman, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



National Museum relieving sewer: Additional amount required for running reliev- 

 ing sewer into North B street sewer instead of into Seventh street sewer, $700. 



Note. — An appropriation of $1,000 was made at the last session of Congress to con- 

 struct a relieving sewer from the National Museum building to Seventh street. It is 

 found, however, that this will not answer the purpose and that the relieving sewer 

 must be carried into the North B street sewer directly instead of indirectly by way 

 of Seventh street. The distance is two-thirds greater and the additional amount of 

 $700 is required to effect the desired result, the sewer being absolutely necessary to 

 the safety of the new Museum building. 



