730 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



For fitting up new halls required for the Government collections, 

 $10,000; 



To complete the heating apparatus of the National Museum, $2,500. 

 (Stat., XVIII, Part 3, 387.) 



KEGENTS TO HAVE USE OF LIBRARY OF CONORTOSS 



March 2, 1875 Senate. 



The Vice-President (Mr. HENRY WILSON) laid before the Senate a 

 bill extending the privileges of the Library of Congress to the Regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution : 



Be it enacted, etc. , That the Joint Committee of both Houses of Congress on the 

 Library be authorized to extend the use of the books in the Library of Congress to 

 the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution resident in Washington, on the same 

 conditions and restrictions as members of Congress are allowed to use the Library. 



Passed. 



March 2, 1875 House. 



Mr. G. F. HOAR introduced a bill extending the privileges of the 

 Library of Congress to the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Passed. 

 March 3, 1875. 



Be It enacted, etc,, That the Joint Committee of both Houses of Con- 

 gress on the Library be authorized to extend the use of the books in 

 the Library of Congress to the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 

 resident in Washington, on the same conditions and restrictions as 

 members of Congress are allowed to use the Library. 



(Stat., XVIII, Part3, 512.) 



FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1875-1877. 

 Augusts, 1876. 



Restoration of the original Declaration of Independence. 



Resolved, etc., That a commission, consisting of the Secretary of 

 the Interior, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and the 

 Librarian of Congress, be empowered to have resort to such means as 

 will most effectually restore the writing of the original manuscript of 

 the Declaration of Independence, with the signatures appended 

 thereto, now in the United States Patent Office; and that the expoi se 

 attending the same be defrayed out of the contingent fund of the 

 Interior Department. 



(Stat., XIX, 216.) 



