Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 25.djvu/998

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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. lll. ISSU, 953 from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessaiiy employees, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. ' URNITURE AND FIXTURES OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM: For cases, Fumituieetc. furniture. fixtures. and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including galaries or compensation of all necessary employees, thirty thousand o ars. Posrnonz For postagestamps and foreign postal-cards for the POM26- - National Museum, one thousand dollars. FISH COMMISSION. Fish Commission. Uxirnn Sruizs Comnssiox or Frsn AND Frsnnmnsz For- com- Comnussxmm. pensation of the Commissioner. five thousand dollars. Pnoraoariox or Foon-Frsuns : For the introduction by the is*gf¤ws¤¤¤¤¤ffw¤- United States Fish Commission into. and the increase in the waters es' of the United States of food-fishes and other useful roducts of the waters, including lobsters, oysters. and other shell-fislli, a11d for such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries may find necessary to the prosecution of his work, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For altering and fitting up the Interior of the Armory Building, Armory banding_ On the Mall, City of W'ashington, now occupied as a hatching station, Alt°"°“ and "p°""‘ for the accommodation of the offices of the United States Fish Commission, and for eneral repairs to said building, including the heating apparatus, and for repairing and extending the outbuildingsseven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol; and for the purpose above named the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is hereby required to move from the second and third stories of this building all properties except such as are connected with the work shops hereinafter named, under his control; and the work shops now in the second story of said building shall be transferred to a11d rovided for. in the third story thereof. And the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to ex- B°¤°¤**¤*- amine and make report to Congress at its next regu ar session as to the practicability and cost of constructing a basement story under the National Museum Building. Disrmncriox or Foon-Fisnns; For the distribution of the eggs ¤i~=¤¤¤¤<>¤>—>f¤~¤- and yOU11g of the Whitefish. salmon. shad, carp. cod. lobster, and other useful inhabitants of the waters, including salaries or compensation of all necessar * employees, thirty-five thousand dollars. MAINTENANCE OF l'EssnLs; For the maintenance of the vesselS ,,e{gf“"‘““"““” °' "*"" and steam launches of the United States Fish Commission, and for boats. apparatus, machinery. and the other facilities required for use Willi hl1G Sanie. including salaries or compensation of all IIBGQSSRPY civilian employees. forty-three thousand nine hundred dollars, _ _ INQUIRY RESPE('T[N({ FOOD-Frsrmsz For continuing the inquiry I¤*•¤¤¤s¤¤<>¤¤·<·¢¢- into the causes of the decrease of fooddishes in the lakes. rivers, and coast waters of the United States. and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interests of iish culture;for the study of the meth— ods and relations of the fisheries. with a view to their improveinentg for the ex loration of the fishing-grounds of the Sout Atlantic, Gulf and Illacitic coasts, with a view to the development of the commercial fisheries. and for the preparation of reports relating to the inquiry, including salaries or compensation and held expenses of scientitic assistants. fishery experts, and other necessary employees, lJWent·y thousand dollars. , . . . STATISTICAL Ixqcmv; For the collection and compilatiorrof the S¢¤¢¤¤¤¤¤· statistics o'f the fisheries of all portions of the United States, meluding persons employed, capital invested, and the quantity and value