1668 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, 
by the Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum. 
Total amount | Amount ap- 
to be appro- |propriated for 
priated the current 
under each | fiscal year 
head of ap- | ending June 
propriation. 30, 1895 
Detailed objects of expenditure, and explanations. 
National Museum: 
For workshops [and storage] for National Museum (Mar. 12, 1894, 
vol. 28, p. 48, sec.1; Aug. 18, 1894, vol. 28, p. 383, sec.1) .........-...-.- $2, 000. 00 $600. 00 
Nore.—This estimate is made necessary by act approved March 12, 1894, giving the Fish Commission 
possession of the so-called Armory Building, used by the National Museum for workshops and storage 
purposes. 
A building, No. 1005 B street NW., was rented at the rate of $900 a year, but it is not large enough 
to hold workshops and the collections given to the Museum at the close of the World’s Fair in Chicago, 
for which there isno roomin the present building. Much valuable material is now stored in wooden 
sheds which are not fireproof. It is thought that with the sum asked for it will be possible to obtain 
enough storage room to relieve the pressure in part until additional building accommodations of some 
kind are provided. 
Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 
NATIONAL MUSEUM—APPROPRIATIONS. 
February 3, 1894—House. 
Mr. Josep D. Sayers, from Committee on Appropriations, sub- 
mitted report (H. 348) on H. 5575 (sundry civil bill for 1895), which 
contained item: 
Appropriation | Estimate for | Recommended 
for 1894. 1895. for 1895. 
National) Museum.) os5y555.6-.6 cheb sb Ae oe $154, 000 $154, 000 $170, 500 
March 12, 1894. 
Urgent deficiency act for 1894, ete. 
For rent for workshops for the National Museum and for expenses 
of transfer from the so-called Armory building, $1,000, or so much 
thereof as may be necessary. 
(Stat., XXVIII, 43.) 
August 18, 1894. 
Sundry civil act for 1895. 
For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the col- 
lections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Govern- 
ment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of 
all necessary employees, $143,000. 
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, $10,000. 
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and tele- 
phonic service for the National Museum, $13,000. 
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, 
$500. 
