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already actually paid duty-contrary to the manifest intention of Congress that material for the Government collections and use should enter free."

Wilkes Exploring Expedition; Margry Papers. Provision for the final distribution of the fragments or residue of these still remaining in the custody of the Library. Respectfully submitted

HERBERT PUTNAM

Librarian of Congress

The Honorable

THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE

a Paragraph 500 is now as follows:

"SEC. 2. That on and after the passage of this act, unless otherwise specially provided for in this act, the following articles when imported shall be exempt from duty:

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"500. Books, engravings, photographs, etchings (bound or unbound), maps and charts imported by authority or for the use of the United States or for the use of the Library of Congress."

The specifications of paragraph 503 are "books, maps, music, photographs, etchings, lithographic prints, and charts specially imported, etc."

REPORT

OF THE

SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LIBRARY

BUILDING AND GROUNDS

(97)

REPORT

OF

THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LIBRARY

BUILDING AND GROUNDS

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Washington, D. C., December 5, 1905

SIR: Heretofore the Superintendent has rendered separate annual reports to Congress, covering the years 1898 to 1904, although not specifically required by law to do so, but in the later years the greater parts of these reports have been practically duplicated in those of the Librarian to render them duly comprehensive of the Library as a whole. With the Librarian's concurrence, therefore, the Superintendent proposed in his last annual report to Congress to report thereafter annually by contribution to that of the Librarian, and this is now done.

Beside the care and maintenance of the building and grounds of the Library, this office, being separate and distinct from that of the Librarian, has charge of the equipment of the Library as to interior fixtures, furniture, and mechanical appliances, and disburses all appropriations for the Library as well as those for the building and grounds.

In prior years the building was open to visitors during parts or the whole of some of the holidays, while the reading rooms were closed; but during the last two fiscal years the building and the reading and exhibition rooms have been open to the public, as on Sundays, from 2 to 10 o'clock

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