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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1893-1895. 1687 
If you desire any other person than yourself to inspect the bonds 
at any time, I will require a written request from you to that effect, 
Respectfully yours, 
D. N. Morean, 
Treasurer United States. 
PERMANENT APPROPRIATIONS—SMITHSONIAN FUND. 
February 8, 1894—House. 
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. J. G. Carlisle) 
relative to permanent specific appropriations [bill (H. 2001), H. Mis. 
Doe. 86], urged that the laws should not be repealed providing for 
‘*nermanent specific appropriations looking to the maintenance of 
institutions, or the manner of payment of compensation for certain 
official services, which, if it be the will of Congress to abandon, it 
were better to repeal the law creating them rather than to subject 
such institutions or officials to an equivocal existence or support, 
through the vicissitudes of annual legislation necessary to maintain 
them.” 
[Extract. ] 
Statement of appropriations for permanent specific objects during the fiscal years 1892 and 
1893. 
1892. 1893. 
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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. 
March 5, 1894—Senate. 
The Vicr-Presipent (Mr. A. E. Stevenson) laid before the Senate 
a communication from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 
transmitting the annual report of the American Historical Association 
for the year 1898, in accordance with the act of incorporation. 
Mr. JoserH R. Hawxey. Is the matter accompanying the report 
sufficient to make a large document? If so, it ought to be referred to 
the Committee on Printing. I see the size of the package. 
Mr. Francis M. Cockretu. Let the communication be printed any- 
way, with the accompanying papers, and referred to the Committee 
on Printing. 
Mr. GrorcE F. Hoar. The usual number? 
Mr. Hawiry. Theusualnumber. Let them be printed and referred. 
The Vicr-PREsIDENT. The communication, with the accompanying 
papers, will be referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to 
be printed. 
