946 CONGEESSIONAL PEOCEEDINGS. 



For care of the Armory building and its grounds, and for the 

 expense of watching, preservation, and storage of property of the 

 National Museum and of the United States Fish Commission con- 

 tained therein, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 

 employees, $2,500. 



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

 collections of the United States National Museum, and for salaries or 

 compensation of all necessary employees, $50,000. 

 December 21, 1884. 



Decemher 21, 188 Jf. 



Sir: I beg to inclose herewith an item to refund to Messrs. Semon 

 Bache & Co., of New York, $3,562.56 for duties on sundry lots of 

 plate glass furnished by them for cases for the United States National 

 Museum from their stock, and to respectfuU}^ request that the same 

 be incorporated in the general deficiency estimates shortly to be sub- 

 mitted to Congress by the Treasury Department. 



In explanation of this item I would state that from time to time, for 

 several years past, the Treasury Department, at our request, has 

 granted free permits for incoming glass to offset that furnished from 

 stock to the National Museum, and for the New Orleans, Cincinnati, 

 and Louisville expositions, by the- firms in question, but that in 

 June (?) last an order was issued by the Treasury Department, declin- 

 ing to grant further permits unless the glass came directly from the 

 custom-houses to this city. The amount of duties now asked to be 

 refunded we have found to be correct, and covers the entire liability 

 of the Government on this account, to the firm mentioned, to the 

 present day. 



I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully yours, 



Spencer F. Baird, Secretary. 



Hon. Hugh McCullogh, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



Kefund of duty to Semon Bache & Co. : To refund the duty paid by Semon Bache 

 & Co., from imported stock furnished to the National Museum and the New 

 Orleans, Louisville, and Cincinnati expositions for exhibition cases, $3,562.56. 

 January 24, 1885 — House. 



Deficiency estimates for 1885. 



To pay sundry bills for miscellaneous fixtures and for glass for 

 exhibition cases for the National Museum, being for the service of 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1884, $2,891.42. 



To meet expenses of receiving, packing, transporting to Washington, 

 and installing or storing such new specimens and collections as may 

 be presented to the United States at the New Orleans Exposition, to 

 be available for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1885 and 1886, $10,000. 



To cost of restoring the collections sent to the New Orleans Plxpo- 

 sition to their proper places in the National Museum, including repair 



