ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. 



(In continuation from previous reiiorts.) 



[Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, and Fifty-fifth Congress, first session.] 

 INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 



International exchanges. — For expenses of the system of international 

 exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the 

 direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compen- 

 sation of all necessary employees, nineteen thousand dollars. (Sundry 

 civil appropriation act, approved June 4, 1897, statutes of Fifty-fifth 

 Congress, first session, p. 22.) 



To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury 

 on account of the appropriation "International exchanges, Smithsonian 

 Institution ," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one 

 dollar and seventy-nine cents. (Deficiency appropriation act, approved 

 July 19, 1897, statutes of Fifty-fifth Congress, first session, p. 115.) 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



National Museum. — For^ cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances 

 required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the 

 Isational Museum, including fifteen thousand dollars for furnishing 

 new galleries and including salaries or compensation of all necessary 

 emj)loyees, thirty thousand dollars. 



For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and tele- 

 phonic service for the National Museum, fourteen thousand dollars. 



For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the col- 

 lections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Govern- 

 ment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all 

 necessary employees, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, of which 

 sum three thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary 

 drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum. 



For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, includ- 

 ing all necessary labor and material, four thousand dollars. 



For rent of workshops for the National Museum, two thousand 

 dollars. 



For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, 

 five hundred dollars. 



