ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. XLVII 



expenses or for any specific or general purpose unless such purchase is 

 authorized and payment therefor specifically provided in the law 

 granting the appropriation. (Section 3, legislative, executive, and 

 judicial appropriation act, approved March 15, 1898; Statutes of 

 1897-98, p. 316.) 



CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. 



International Conference on a Catalogue of Scientific Literature: 

 For expenses of a delegate to the International Conference on a Cata- 

 logue of Scientific Literature, to be held at London during the present 

 year, not exceeding five hundred dollars. (Deficiency appropriation 

 act, July 7, 1898; Statutes of 1897-98, chap. 571, p. 653.) 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhi- 

 bition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, 

 including twenty thousand dollars for furnishing new galleries and 

 including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, thirty- 

 five thousand dollars. 



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

 phonic service for the National Museum, fourteen thousand dollars. 



For continuing tbe 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-five thousand dollars, of 

 which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary 

 drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum. 



For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in 

 the National Museum, two thousand dollars. 



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

 ing all necessary labor and material, four thousand dollars. 



For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National 

 Museum, four thousand five hundred dollars. 



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

 five hundred dollars. 



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, ten thou- 

 sand dollars. 



For purchase of two thousand nine hundred volumes, eighteen thou- 

 sand pamphlets, and one thousand eight hundred portraits, autographs, 

 and engravings relating to museums, exhibitions, and natural history, 

 library of the late G. Brown Goode, five thousand dollars. (Sundry 

 civil act, July 1, 1898; Statutes of 1897-98, chap. 546, p. 608.) 



