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Resolved, etc., That the facilities for research and illustration in 
the following and any other Governmental collections now existing or 
hereafter to be established in the city of Washington for the pro- 
motion of knowledge shall be accessible, under such rules and restric- 
tions 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: 
1. Of the Library of Congress. 
. Of the National Museum. 
Of the Patent Office. 
Of the Bureau of Education. 
Of the Bureau of Ethnology. 
Of the Army Medical Museum. 
Of the Department of Agriculture. 
. Of the Fish Commission. 
9. Of the Botanic Gardens. 
10. Of the Coast and Geodetic Survey 
11. Of the Geological Survey. 
12. Of the Naval Observatory. 
(Stat., XX VII, 395). 
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LIST OF EMPLOYEES. 
March 23, 1892—Senate. 
Mr. E. O. Wotcorr submitted resolution directing heads of several 
Departments and of the other branches of public service in Washing- 
ton to transmit lists of all their subordinates, names, legal residences, 
compensation, and duties, who were on the 1st of March, 1892, 
employed in Washington, not as laborers or workmen, nor as members 
of the classified civil service, and were not specifically authorized or 
appropriated for by law, but were appointed or employed according 
to the discretion of the official appointing or employing them, and 
paid from some general or special fund subject to his control, and 
lists of all persons employed or paid as laborers or workmen who have 
performed clerical or other higher duty. 
March 24, 1892—Senate. 
Mr. E. O. Wotcorr modified his resolution offered March 23, to 
insert after the word ‘‘ workmen” the words ‘‘or as printers, binders, 
or pieceworkers.” 
Adopted. 
April 5, 1892—Senate. t 
The Vicr-Presipent (Mr. Levi P. Morton) presented a communi- 
cation from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (S. Mise. 
Doe. 116): 
