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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   1531

For the fiscal year 1962 a total of $5,310,000 is recommended for additions to the Natural History Building as contrasted with $13,500,000 appropriated in the fiscal year 1961. The sum of $400,000 for plans for the remodeling of the Civil Service Commission Building is also recommended in the fiscal year 1962 Budget.

The Total Smithsonian appropriation for 1961 (including supplementals) was $21,596,000. The total estimate of appropriation included in the Budget for the fiscal year 1962 is $14,985,000, or a decrease of $6,611,000 under the funds appropriated for the fiscal year 1961.

REPORT ON ARMED FORCES MUSEUM

The bill, S. 3846 ("To establish a National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board....") was introduced in the last session of the Senate where it passed without amendment, but it was not passed in the House of Representatives. This year the Honorable Charles E. Bennett of Florida has already introduced a bill, H.R. 1134, concerned with the establishment of a National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board, including substantially the wording of S. 3846, 86th Congress, but adding the establishment of a National Museum of Naval History to be administered by the Department of the Interior. After discussion, on motion by Senator Saltonstall, duly seconded and carried it was

VOTED that Senator Anderson be requested to introduce in the Senate, for himself and Senator Saltonstall, a bill identical to S. 3846 of the 86th Congress, and that Mr. Cannon be requested to take appropriate legislative action in the House of Representatives.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN ART COMMISSION

The Secretary stated that each member had before him the minutes of the Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Smithsonian Art Commission dated December 6, 1960. On 

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