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For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhi- 
bition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, 
including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $30,000. 
For postage-stamps and foreign postal-cards for the National 
Museum, $1,000. 
(Stat., XXV, 953.) 
For printing labels and blanks for the use of the National Museum 
and for the ‘‘ Bulletins” and annual volumes of the ‘‘ Proceedings” of 
- the Museum, $10,000. 
(Stat., XXV, 979.) 
MILITARY AND NAVAL MUSEUM. 
July 24, 1888—House. 
Mr. R. W. TownsuHEnp offered a resolution: 
That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy be directed to inform 
the House of Representatives what collections suitable to be embodied in a national 
military and nayal museum are now in existence in their respective Departments, 
and what materials for such collections can be found in any of the arsenals, posts, 
navy-yards, and stations, and what further steps should be taken in order that an 
effective permanent exhibition may be made in this city illustrative of the history 
of military and nayal invention, organization, construction, and equipment in the 
United States, and of the principal battles in which United States troops have been 
engaged; and they are respectively authorized in their discretion to detail one or 
_more officers to aid in the preparation of the reports called for in this resolution, 
which reports shall contain any suggestions they may desire to make in regard to the 
establishment of a national military and naval museum in the city of Washington 
of a scope and character similar to the museums now in existence in the principal 
cities of Europe. 
Referred to Committee on Military Affairs. 
July 31, 1888—House. 
Passed. 
December 7, 1888—House. 
Report received from W. C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy, dated 
December 3, 1888, with statement by chiefs of Bureau of ‘Yards and 
Docks, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, Bureau of Navigation, 
Bureau of Ordnance, Bureau of Construction and Repair, Bureau of 
Steam Engineering, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, Bureau of 
Medicine and Surgery, commandants of all the navy-yards, Superin- 
tendent of Naval Academy, etc., giving a detailed list of flags, portraits, 
uniforms, ammunition, weapons, models, books, etc., in possesssion 
of the Government suitable for a national military and naval museum. 
(Printed in Fiftieth Congress, second session, House Ex. Doc. No. 
11, 24 pp.) 
December 10, 1888—House. 
Report from the Secretary of War, with statements from heads of 
all bureaus, etc.,as to relics, models, guns, ammunition, uniforms, ete. 
(Fiftieth Congress, second session, House Ex. Doc. No. 21, 32 pp.) 
