1238 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
hereby required to move from the second and third stories of this building all prop- 
erties, except such as are connected with the workshops hereinafter named, under his 
control; and the workshops now in the second story of said building shall be trans- 
ferred to and provided for in the third story thereof. And the Architect of the 
Capitol is hereby directed to examine and make report to Congress at its next regu- 
lar session as to the practicability and cost of constructing a basement story under 
the National Museum building. 
And in lieu thereof to insert: 
For altering, adapting, and extending the Armory building, on the Mall, in the city 
of Washington, for offices of the United States Fish Commission, including heating 
apparatus and other equipment, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 
this sum to be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the 
Architect of the Capitol; and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is hereby 
required to move from the said building all properties under his control. And the 
Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to examine and make report to Congress 
at its next regular session as to the practicability and cost of constructing a basement 
story under the National Museum building. 
Agreed to. 
March 2, 1889. 
Sundry civil act for 1890. 
Fish Commission: For altering and fitting up the interior of the 
Armory building, on the Mall, city of Washington, now occupied as 
a hatching station, for the accommodation of the offices of the United 
States Fish Commission, and for general repairs to said ‘building, 
including the heating apparatus, and for repairing and extending the 
outbuildings, $7,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same 
to be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of 
the Architect of the Capitol; and for the purpose above named the 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is hereby required to move 
from the second and third stories of this building all properties except . 
such as are connected with the workshops hereinafter named, under 
his control; and the workshops now in the second story of said build- 
ing shall be transferred to and provided for, in the third story thereof. 
And the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to examine and 
make report to Congress at its next regular session as to the practica- 
bility and cost of constructing a basement story under the National 
Museum building. 
(Stat. XXV, 953.) 
NATIONAL MUSEUM—CLASSIFIED SERVICE. 
October 8, 1888—Senate. 
Mr. James F. Wixson, of Lowa, offered a resolution, and asked for 
its present consideration: 
Resolved, That the Regents and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and 
Director of the United States National Museum, be, and hereby are, directed to for- 
mulate and transmit to the Senate, at their earliest convenience, a schedule of classi- 
fied service of the officers and employees of the National Museum, arranged accord- 
ing to duty and salary, as the same is required for the proper working of the Museum. 
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