934 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 

 employ cos, $1 0,000. 



(Stat., XXIII, 494.) 



War Department: For the transportation of reports and maps to 

 foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institute, $200. 



(Stat., XXIII, 507.) 



March 3, 1885. 



Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1886. 



Library of Congress: For expenses of exchanging public documents 

 for the publications of foreign governments, $1,000. 



(Stat., XXIII, 394.) 



Naval Observatory: For payment to Smithsonian Institution for 

 freight on Observatory publications sent to foreign countries, $336. 



(Stat., XXIII, 415.) 



Patent Office: For expenses of transporting publications of patents 

 issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, $2,000. 



(Stat., XXIII, 419.) 



ARMY MEDICAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. 

 December 10, 1883 House. 



Mr. WILLIAM S. ROSECRANS introduced a bill (H. 48): 



That a brick and metal fireproof building, to be used for the safe-keeping of the 

 records, library, and museum of the Surgeon-General's Office of the United States 

 Army, is hereby authorized to be constructed upon the Government reservation in 

 the city of AVashington, in the vicinity of the National Museum and the Smithson- 

 ian Institution, on a site to be selected by a commission composed of the Architect 

 of the Capitol, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and the officer in 

 charge of the State, War, and Navy Department building, and in accordance with 

 plans and specifications submitted by the Surgeon-General of the Army and approved 

 by said commission, the cost of the building, when completed, not to exceed the 

 surn of $200,000; the building to be erected and the money expended under the 

 direction and superintendence of the officer in charge of the State, War, and Navy 

 Department building. 



Referred to Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 

 July 2, 1884 House. 



Mr. S. M. STOCKSLAGER reported H. 48 amended. 



February 16, 1885 House. 



Mr. S. M. STOCKSLAGER. I move to suspend the rules and pass the 

 bill (H. 48) providing for the erection of a building to contain the 

 records of the library and museum of the Medical Department, United 

 States Army, with the amendments reported from the Committee on 

 Public Buildings and Grounds. 



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Mr. O. B. POTTER. Mr. Speaker, I confess I have the gravest 

 doubts as to the propriety of this project. I think it will end in a 



