ACTS AND EESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. LIX 



BuiLDiNOr FOR National Museum: To enable the Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution to commence the erection of a suitable fire- 

 proof building with granite fronts, for the use of the National 

 Museum, to be erected on the north side of the Mall, between Ninth 

 and Twelfth streets northwest, substantially in accordance with the 

 Plan A, prepared and submitted to Congress by the secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution under the provisions of the act approved 

 June twentj' -eighth, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and fift}^ 

 thousand dollars. Said building complete, including heating and ven- 

 tilating apparatus and elevators, shall cost not to exceed three million 

 five hundred thousand dollai's, and a contract or contracts for its com- 

 pletion is hereby authorized to be entered into subject to appropria- 

 ations to be made by Congress. The construction shall ))e in charge of 

 Bernard K. Green, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, Library 

 of Congress, who shall make the contracts herein authorized and dis- 

 burse all appropriations made for the work, and shall receive as full 

 compensation for his services hereunder the sum of two thousand dol- 

 lars annually in addition to his present salary, to be paid out of said 

 appropriations. (Approved March 3, 1903; Statutes, XXXII, 1102.) 



For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and 

 for the " Bulletins" and " Proceedings" of the National Museum, the 

 editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and 

 binding, in half turkey, or material not more expensive, scientific 

 books and pamphlets presented to and acquired l)y the National 

 Museum Library, seventeen thousand dollars. (Approved March 3, 

 1903; Statutes, XXXII, 1116.) 



For preservation of collections, National Museum, sixty cents. 

 (Approved March 3, 1903; Statutes, XXXII, 1075.) 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 



For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the 

 United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 

 employees, and the purchase of necessar}^ books and periodicals, 

 twenty-six thousand dollars. (Approved March 3, 1903; Statutes 

 XXXII, 1101.) 



Geoi.ogical Survey. — For the purchase of necessarj" books for the 

 libraiy, including directories and professional and scientific period- 

 icals needed for statistical purposes, not to exceed two thousand dollars, 

 and the payment for the transmission of public documents through 

 the Smithsonian exchange, four thousand dollars; in all, six thousand 

 dollars. (Approved March 3, 1903; Statutes, XXXII, 1118.) 



