28 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Supervision of construction. 



Sec. 2. That the supervision of the construction of said building 

 shall be placed in charge of an officer of the Government especially 

 qualified for the duty, to be appointed by the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture, subject to the approval of the head of the department in which 

 such officer is employed, who shall receive for his additional services 

 an increase of twenty-five per centum of his present salary, such 

 increase to be paid out of the appropriation for the building herein 

 authorized. 



Act February 9, 1903, c. 528, s. 2, 32 Stat. 806. 

 Limit of cost. 



Sec. 3. That the limit of cost for the construction of said building 

 complete, including heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and 

 approaches, and the cost for removal of the present building or 

 buildings of the Department of Agriculture, is hereby fixed at one 

 million five hundred thousand dollars, and no contract shall be en- 

 tered into or expenditure authorized in excess of said amount. 



Act February 9, 1903, c. 528, s. 3, 32 Stat. 806. 



RES. APRIL 12, 1892, No. 8. Joint resolution to encourage the establishment 

 and endowment of institutions of learning at the national capital by defin- 

 ing the policy of the Government with reference to the use of its literary 

 and scientific collections by students. (27 Stat. 395.) 



Facilities for research and illustration in the Department of Agriculture acces- 

 sible to scientific investigators and students. 



Whereas, large collections illustrative of the various arts and 

 sciences and facilitating literary and scientific research have been 

 accumulated by the action of Congress through a series of years at the 

 national capital ; and 



Whereas it was the original purpose of the Government thereby 

 to promote research and the diffusion of knowledge, and is now the 

 settled policy and present practice of those charged with the care 

 of these collections specially to encourage students who devote their 

 time to the investigation and study of any branch of knowledge by 

 allowing to them all proper use thereof; and 



Whereas it is represented that the enumeration of these facilities 

 and the formal statement of this policy will encourage the estab- 

 lishment and endowment of institutions of learning at the scat of 

 (lovernment. and promote the work of education by attracting stu- 

 dents to avail themselves of the advantages aforesaid under the direc- 

 tion of competent instructors: Therefore, 



Resolved., * * ♦ xhat the facilities for research and illustra- 

 tion in the following and any other Governmental collections now 

 existing or hereafter to be established in the city of Washington for 

 the promotion of knowledge shall be accessible, under such rules and 

 restrictions as the officers in charge of each collection may prescribe, 

 subject to such authority as is now or may hereafter be permitted by 

 law, to the scientific investigators and to students of any institution 

 of higher education now incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated 

 under the laws of Congress or of the District of Columbia, to wit: 



One. Of the Library of Congress. 



Two. Of tlie National Museum. 



