1044 CONGRESSIONAL PKOCEEDINGS. 



moving a large wooden building belonging to the National Museum, 

 so as to clear the site selected for the building in question, $245. 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, D. C, Januarys, 1887. 

 Sir: I respectfully ask that the following item be inserted in the deficiency bill 

 which you are about transmitting to Congress: 



To reimburse the appropriation for the erection of a building for the Army Med- 

 ical Museum and Library by the amount expended in moving a large v/ooden build- 

 ing belonging to the National Museum, so as to clear the site selected for the building 

 in question, |245. 



The annexed building in question was erected several years ago, for the purpose 

 of carrying out a provision of Congress for the participation ]jy the National Museum, 

 U. S. Fish Commission, and the U. S. Geological Survey in the New Orleans National 

 Exhibition, and had been placed where it was most convenient at the time. Subse- 

 quently, when a site was selected for the new building of the Army Medical Museum, 

 this construction was found to encroach to such an extent as to make it necessary to 

 move it some 50 or more feet, and as there was no appropriation available for the 

 purpose, it was done at the expense of the appropriation for the construction of the 

 Army Medical Museum building, the demands upon which have been very great, so 

 as to naturally induce the desire for reimbursal. Unfortunately the National 

 Museum has no funds applicable to this purpose, and the subject is respectfully trans- 

 mitted to Congress for its action. 

 Very respectfully, 



Spencer F. Baird, 



Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 

 Hon. Daniel Manning, 



Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. 



reid's sword. 



January 21, 1887~Senate. 



The President pro tempore (Mr. John Sherman) laid before the 

 Senate the following message from the President of the United States 

 (Ex. Doc. 45), which was read and, with the accompanying papers, 

 ordered to lie on the table and be printed: 



To the Senate and House of Representatives: 



I herewith transmit a communication addressed to me by Mr. Samuel C. Reid, 

 who offers to the United States the battle sword (now in my custody) of his father, 

 Capt. Samuel Chester Reid, who commanded the United States private-armed brig 

 General Armstrong at the battle of Fayal, in September, 1814. 



I respectfully recommend that appropriate action be taken by Congress for the 

 acceptance of this gift. 



Grover Cleveland. 



Executive Mansion, 



Washington, January 20, 1887. 

 February 15, 1887 — House. 



Resolution accepting the sword of Capt. Samuel Chester Reid, ten- 

 dered as a gift by his son, Samuel C. Reid, referred to Committee 

 on Naval Affairs. 

 February 19, 1887— House. 



Reported by Mr. John A. Thomas, from the Committee on Naval 

 Affairs. 



Referred to Committee of Whole. 



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