944 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM SUNDAY OPENING. 



March 24, 1884 House. 



Mr. WILLIAM S. ROSECRANS presented a petition of residents of the 

 District of Columbia that the National Museum be opened on Sundays 

 the same hours as on week days. Referred to Committee on District 

 of Columbia. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM TRANSPORTATION . 



July 5, 1884. 



Army act for 1885. 



Provided also, That hereafter the Quartermaster-General and his 

 officers, under his instructions, wherever stationed, shall receive, trans- 

 port, and be responsible for all property turned over to them, or any 

 one of them, by the officers or agents of any Government survey, for the 

 National Museum, or for the. civil or naval departments of the Govern- 

 ment, in Washington or elsewhere, under the regulations governing 

 the transportation of Army supplies, the amount paid for such trans- 

 portation to be refunded or paid by the Bureau to which such property 

 or stores pertain. 



(Stat., XXIII, 111.) 



NATIONAL MUSEUM REPORT. 



July 7, 1884. 



Sundry civil act for 1885. 



The Director of the National Museum is hereby directed to report 

 annually to Congress the progress of the Museum during the year and 

 its present condition. 



(Stat., XXIII, 214.) 



NATIONAL MUSEUM ESTIMATES. 



December 3, 1883 House. 



Estimates for 1885. 



For construction, in a fireproof manner, of an additional museum 

 building, to receive the collections and laboratories in chemistry, geol- 

 ogy, mineralogy, metallurgy, taxidermy, etc.; and for the offices and 

 laboratories of the United States Geological Survey, to be erected under 

 the direction and supervision of the Regents of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, on the southwest corner of the grounds of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, $200,000. 



For the erection of a fireproof brick storage building east of the 

 National Museum for receiving, unpacking, assorting, and storing the 

 natural-history collections of the Government; to replace the wooden 

 structures now used for the purpose, $10,000. 



