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Contributions to National Herbarium, National Museum:

From balance July 1, 1904 ...

Plans for additional building, National Museum:

From balance July 1, 1904 ..

Astrophysical Observatory, Smithsonian Institution:

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Transportation of exhibits acquired from the Louisiana Pur

chase Exposition, National Museum

Books ....

Purchase of specimens.

Contributions to National Herbarium..

Plans for additional building...

Astrophysical Observatory

Observation of eclipse...

National Zoological Park.

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National Zoological Park, elephant house..

109, 638.59

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$567, 319.98

The committee has examined the vouchers for payment from the Smithsonian income during the year ending June 30, 1905, each of which bears the approval of the Secretary or, in his absence, of the Acting Secretary, and a certificate that the materials and services. charged were applied to the purposes of the Institution.

The quarterly accounts current, the vouchers, and journals have been examined and found correct.

Statement of regular income from the Smithsonian fund available for use in the year ending June 30, 1906.

Balance July 1, 1905

Interest due and receivable July 1, 1905..

Interest due and receivable January 1, 1906.

Interest, West Shore Railroad bonds, due July 1, 1905..
Interest, West Shore Railroad bonds, due January 1, 1906....

Total available for year ending June 30, 1906..

Respectfully submitted.

$5, 153.92

$28, 110.00

28, 110.00
840.00

840.00

57, 900.00

63, 053.92

J. B. HENDERSON, Chairman,
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL,
ROBERT R. HITT,

Executive Committee.

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 9, 1906.

ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, ETC.

[Continued from previous reports.]

[Fifty-eighth Congress, third session.]

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancy on the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than members of Congress, shall be filled by the reappointment of James B. Angell, of Michigan, whose term of office expires on January twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and five. (Approved January 23, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1279.)

SMITHSONIAN DEPOSIT [LIBRARY OF CONGRESS].--For custodian, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. (Approved February 3, 1905; Statutes XXXIII, 640.)

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 compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars. (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1165.)

NAVAL OBSERVATORY.-For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery, freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage and expressage, plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. (Approved February 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 666.)

BUREAU OF 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 and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, forty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building. (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1165.)

ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY.

For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1165.)

NATIONAL MUSEUM.

For continuing the construction of the building for the National Museum, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, one million five hundred thousand dollars.

For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twentytwo thousand five hundred dollars.

For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum, eighteen thousand dollars.

For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, one hundred and eighty 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 the transportation from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, to the United States National Museum, Washington, District of Columbia, of exhibits acquired by the United States Government for addition to the collections in the National Museum, including expenditures incurred prior to March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, for packing, freight, cartage, unpacking, and all other necessary expenses incident thereto, to be immediately available, six thousand five hundred dollars.

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, including all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars.

For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National Museum, four thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.

For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars. (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1165, 1166.)

For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and for the "Bulletins" and "Proceedings" of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, twenty-five thousand dollars. (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1212.)

For books, National Museum, four dollars and thirty-four cents. (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1257.)

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK.

For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, the printing and publishing of operations, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, ninety-five thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1166.)

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "National Zoological Park,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred and fifty dollars. (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1219.)

PROVISION AGAINST DEFICIENCIES.

That section thirty-six hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 3679. No Department of the Government shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract

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