Lll ACTS AND RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS. 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



For continuing- ethnological researches among the American Indians 

 under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries 

 or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of nec- 

 essary books and periodicals, forty thousand dollars, of which sum 

 not exceeding one thousand fiv' e hundred dollars may be used for rent 

 of building. (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 11G5.) 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY. 



For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the 

 purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making neces- 

 sary observations in high altitudes, printing and publishing results of 

 researches, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, repairs 

 and alterations of l)uildings and miscellaneous expenses, fifteen thou- 

 sand dollars. (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1165.) 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



For continuing the construction of the building for the National 

 Museum, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, one 

 million five hundred thousand dollars. 



For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhi- 

 l)ition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, 

 including salaries or compensation of all necessary emploj^ees, twenty- 

 two thousand five hundred dollars. 



For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and tele- 

 phonic servdce for the National Museum, eighteen thousand dollars. 



For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the 

 collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Gov- 

 ernment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation 

 of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, one 

 hundred and eighty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five 

 hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations 

 for publications of the National Museum. 



For the transportation from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 

 Saint Louis, Missouri, to the United States National Museum, Wash- 

 ington, District of Columbia, of exhibits acquired by the United States 

 Government for addition to the collections in the National ]\iuseum, 

 including expenditures incurred prior to March fourth, nineteen hun- 

 dred and five, for packing, freight, cartage, unpacking, and all other 

 necessary expenses incident thereto, to be inunediately available, six 

 thousand five hundred dollars. 



For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in 

 the National Museum two thousand dollars. 



