XLVI ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



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 May 28, 1896, Stat- 

 utes of the Fifty-fourth Congress, p. 170.) 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



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

 bition and safekeeping of the collections of the National Museum, 

 including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifteen 

 thousand dollars. 



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

 phonic service for the National Museum, thirteen 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 fifty-three thousand two hundred 

 and twenty-five 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, two thousand dol- 

 lars. 



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

 five hundred dollars. 



For the erection of galleries in two or more halls of the National 

 Museum building, said galleries to be constructed of iron beams, sup- 

 ported by iron pillars, and protected by iron railings, and provided 

 with suitable staircases, the work to be done under the direction of the 

 Architect of the Capitol, and in accordance with the approval of the 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, eight thousand dollars. 

 (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 11, 1896, Statutes of the 

 Fifty-fourth Congress, page 425.) 



Public Printing and Binding. — For the Smithsonian Institution, for 

 printing labels and blanks, and for the "Bulletins" and annual volumes 

 of the "Proceedings" of the National Museum, the editions of which 

 shall not be less than three thousand copies, and binding scientific 

 books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National 

 Museum Library, twelve thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation 

 act, approved June 11, 1896, Statutes of the Fifty- fourth Congress, p. 

 453.) 



To enable the National Museum to refund to the Honorable A. D. 

 Straus, consul-general of the Eepublic of Nicaragua at New York, the 

 amount expended by him in connection with the transportation of a 

 collection of antique pottery to Washington city, said collection being 

 the gift of the President of the Eepublic of Nicaragua to the National 

 Museum, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and 



