1822. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National 
Museum, $500. . 
For the continuation of the construction of galleries in the National 
Museum building, under the direction of the Superintendent of the 
Congressional Library building and grounds, in accordance with the 
approval of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and for 
the building of skylights above galleries in the four courts, and the 
erection of a ventilator upon the roof of the lecture hall, $10,000. 
For purchase of 2,900 volumes, 18,000 pamphlets, and 1,800 por- 
traits, autographs, and engravings relating to museums, exhibitions, 
and natural history, library of the late G. Brown Goode, $5,000. 
(Stat., XXX, 608.) 
For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks for 
the ‘‘ Bulletins” and annual volumes of the ‘‘ Proceedings” of the 
National Museum, the editions of which shall not be less than 3,000 
copies, and binding in half turkey, or material not more expensive, 
scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the 
National Museum library, $17,000. 
(Stat., XXX, 647.) 
March 3, 1899. 
Sundry civil act for 1900. 
For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the 
exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, 
including $10,000 for furnishing new galleries, and including salaries 
or compensation of all necessary employees, $25,000. 
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and tele- 
phonic service for the National Museum, $14,000. 
For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the 
collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Gov- 
ernment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation 
of all necessary employees, $170,000, of which sum $5,000 may be 
used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the 
National Museum, $170,000. 
For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in 
the National Museum, $2,000. 
For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, 
including all necessary labor and material, $6,000. 
For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the 
National Museum, $4,040. 
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National 
Museum, $500. 
(Stat., XXX, 1086.) 
For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and 
for the ‘‘ Bulletins” and ‘‘ Proceedings” of the National Museum, the 
editions of which shall not be less than 3,000 copies, and binding in 
