1764 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
May 18, 1896—Senate. 
S. 3087 recommitted. 
May 18, 1896—House. 
Mr. L. E. Quiae, from Committee on the Library, reported bill 
(H. 8673). 
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Src. 3. That said society shall report annually to the secretary of the Smithson- 
ian Institution con¢erning its proceedings, and said secretary shall communicate to 
Congress such portion thereof as he may deem of national interest and importance. 
The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to permit said national 
society to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other material 
for history in the Smithsonian Institution or in the National Museum, at their dis- 
cretion, upon such conditions and under such rules as they shall prescribe. 
The amendment proposed by the Committee on the Library was to 
strike out in-lines 13 and 14, page 3, the words ‘‘ United States of 
America,” and insert in lieu thereof the words “‘ District of Columbia,” 
so as to read ‘‘a body corporate and politic in the District of Colum- 
bia.” 
The Speaker (Mr. T. B. Reep). Is there objection to the present 
consideration of this bill? 
Mr. Benton McMrruin. I was not able to hear the whole of the 
bill as read. I wish to inquire whether it does not appropriate space 
in Government buildings to private uses. 
Mr. Quiee. Not at all. 
Mr. McMriiur. It struck me that it did so. . 
Mr. Quiee. It permits the trustees of the Smithsonian Institution 
to accept such manuscripts and other collections of the society as may 
be offered to them. 
Mr. McMitir. As donations? 
Mr. Quiaa. As donations. 
There being no objection, the House proceeded to the consideration 
of the bill. 
The amendment of the Committee on the Library was agreed to. 
The bill as amended was passed. 
May 21, 1896—Senate. 
Mr. Martruew 8. Quay presented a memorial of Chapter II, Colonial 
Dames of America, of Philadelphia, Pa., remonstrating against the 
adoption of bill (S. 3087), to incorporate the National Society of 
Colonial Dames of America. 
2007 DrLancry PLAcE, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 
To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Fifty-fourth Congress. 
GENTLEMEN: Mrs. George McClellan, president; Mrs. Thomas Balch, first vice- 
president; Mrs. Richard McCall Cadwalader, second vice-president; Mrs. George 
Brinton Phillips, secretary; Mrs. N. Chapman Mitchell, treasurer; Miss Elise Willing 
Balch, Mrs. James Bowden, Miss Anne Sophia Penn Chew, Miss Guilielma Penn- 
Gaskel Hall, Mrs. George Woolsey Hodge, Mrs. Charles B. Penrose, managers; Mrs. 
Henry J. Hancock, historian; Miss Ursula Rose Boudinot, Miss Mary Swift Buckley, 
