1826 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
July 7, 1898. 
. Deficiency act for 1898, ete. 
Nothing contained in section 7 of the act making appropriations for 
legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for 
the fiscal year 1899, approved March 15, 1898, shall be construed to 
prevent the head of any Executive Department from granting thirty 
days’ annual leave with pay in any one year to a clerk or employee, 
notwithstanding such clerk or employee may have had during such 
year not exceeding thirty days’ leave with pay on account of sickness 
as provided in said section 7. 
(Stat., XXX, 653.) 
STEINER INDIAN COLLECTION. 
January 12, 1898—House. 
Mr. Wiuuram H. Fiemrine introduced bill (H. 6357): 
That the sum of $7,000 is hereby appropriated to pay to Dr. Roland Steiner, in 
full satisfaction for his collection of Indian relics and implements, numbering about 
75,000 specimens, now under offer of sale by him to the Smithsonian Institution, for 
display in the U. 8. National Museum. 
Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 
PRESERVATION OF GAME IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
January 19, 1898—House. 
Mr. Grorcr M. Curtis submitted report (H. 199) on = (H. 2524) 
for preservation of game, etc., with amendment to insert: ‘‘ upon per- 
mit from the executive curator of the National Museum.” 
January 24, 1898—House. 
Debated and passed. 
February 25, 1899—Senate. 
H. 2524 passed with amendments. 
February 27, 1899—House. 
H. 2524 passed. Senate amendments concurred in. 
March 3, 1899. 
Be it enacted, ete., That no person shall kill, expose for sale, or 
have in his or her possession, either dead or alive, any partridge, 
otherwise quail, between the Ist day of February and the 1st day of 
November; nor kill, expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, 
either dead or alive, any woodcock, between the 15th day of January 
and the 15th day of July; nor kill, expose for sale, or have in his or her 
possession, either dead or alive, any prairie chicken, otherwise pinna- 
ted grouse, between the Ist day of February and the Ist day of Sep- 
tember; nor kill, expose for sale, or have in his or her possession, 
either dead or alive, any ruffed grouse, otherwise known as pheasant, 
between the 26th day of December and the Ist day of November, except 
the English ring-neck pheasant, or other pheasants of foreign origin, 
