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appropriation for repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National 
Museum, from $4,000 to $8,000. 
Agreed to. 
June 11, 1896. 
Sundry civil act.for 1897. 
For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibi- 
tion and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, includ- 
ing salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $15,000. 
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and tele- 
phonic service for the National Museum, $13,000. 
For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the 
. collections from the surveying and exploring oxpediacit of the Goy- 
ernment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation 
of all necessary employees, $153,225. 
For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, includ- 
ing all necessary labor and material, $4,000. 
_ For rent of workshops for the Nacisual Museum, $2,000. 
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Mu- 
seum, $500. 
For the erection of galleries in two or more halls of the National 
Museum building, said galleries to be constructed of iron beams, sup- 
ported by iron pillars, and protected by iron railings, and provided 
with suitable staircases, the work to be done under the direction of the 
Architect of the Capitol, and in accordance with the approval of the 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, $8,000. 
(Stat., X XIX, 425.) 
For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and 
for the ‘‘ Bulletins” and annual volumes of the ‘‘ Proceedings” of the 
National Museum, the‘editions of which shall not be less than three 
thousand copies, and binding scientific books and pamphlets presented 
to and acquired by the National Museum Library, $12,000. 
(Stat., XXIX, 453.) 
February 20, 1897—Senate. 
Mr. Wixxrnson Cau proposed an amendment to sundry civil bill 
for 1898 (H. 10292): 
Provided, That of the sum appropriated for the National Museum the watch force 
shall be paid the same salaries that are now paid for like service in the ae 
ca Ae 
- Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 
