XLII ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign 

 postage, and expressage, plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, 

 two thousand five hundred dollars. (Legislative, executive, and judicial 

 appropriation act, approved March 2, 1895, statutes of the Fifty-third 

 Congress, p. 792.) 



Patent Office. — For purchase of professional and scientific books, and 

 expenses of transporting publications of patents-issued by the Patent 

 Office to foreign Governments, two thousand dollars. (Legislative, 

 executive, and judicial appropriation act, approved March 2, 1895, 

 statutes of the Fifty-third Congress, p. 797.) 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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 forty-three thousand two 

 hundred and twenty-five dollars. 



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

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

 including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twelve 

 thousand five hundred dollars. 



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

 phonic service for the National Museum, thirteen thousand dollars. 



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

 five hundred dollars. 



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, nine hundred dollars. 



For expenses of putting in four additional fire plugs in the Smith- 

 sonian Grounds for the better protection of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 National Museum, and Astrophysical Observatory, and the purchase 

 of necessary fire hose, eight hundred dollars. (Sundry civil appropria- 

 tion act, approved March 2, 1895, statutes of the Fifty-third Congress, 

 p. 924.) 



For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and 

 for the " Bulletins" and annual volumes of the " Proceedings" of the 

 National Museum, and binding scientific books and pamphlets, pre- 

 sented to and acquired by the National Museum library, twelve thou- 

 sand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved March 2, 1S95, 

 statutes of the Fifty-third Congress, p. 960.) 



NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, 

 under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries 

 or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars, 



