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THE BASEMENT OF THE CAPITOL.

132. Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office

Department.

14. Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads.

15. Clerk's document room.

151⁄2. Lunch room.

16. Closets.

17. Box room.

18, 19, 20. Restaurant.

21. Committee on Printing.

22. Committee on Indian Affairs.

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1, 5. Index room.

2. Committee on Mines and Mining.

3. Committee on Expenditures in the Agricultural
Department.

6. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.
7. Committee on the Election of President, Vice-
President, and Representatives in Congress.

9. Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands in the
United States.

II. Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury De-
partment.

13. Committee on the Eleventh Census.
15. Committee on Manufactures.

NOTE.-Rooms occupied by the House Committees on
Reform in the Civil Service, Levees and Improvements
of Mississippi River, Expenditures in the Department
of Justice, Expenditures in the Navy Department,
and Expenditures on Public Buildings are not shown
on the diagrams. They are located in the subbase-
ment, west front, on the House side of center of
building.

Room.

MAIN BUILDING.

49. Senate Committee on Census.

50. Senate Committee on the Library.

51. Senate Committee on Education and Labor.

52. House Committee on Labor.

53. House Merchant Marine and Fisheries.

54. House Coinage, Weights, and Measures.

55. House Committee on Education.

56. House Committee on Revision of the Laws.
57. House Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics.
58. Senate Committee on Five Civilized Tribes of
Indians.

59. Senate Committee to Examine Several Branches
of the Civil Service.

60. Senate Committee on Revolutionary Claims. 61. Storeroom for Library.

62. Storeroom Supreme Court.

63. Senate bathroom.

64, 65. The Supreme Court-consultation room.

66. Congressional Law Library, formerly the Supreme Court room.

67. Congressional Law Library.

68 Office of Doorkeeper of the House.

Office of superintendent of folding room.

69. House Committee on Private Land Claims.
70. Offices of the Chief Clerk of the House.

71. House Committee on Expenditures in the State
Department.

72. House Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department.

73. House Committee on Militia.

74. House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic.

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Room.

33. House document room.

34. Engrossing and enrolling clerks of the House.
35. Committee on Enrolled Bills.

36. Office of the Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives. It was in this room, then occupied by the
Speaker of the House, that ex-President John
Quincy Adams died, two days after he fell at his
seat in the House, February 23, 1848.

37. Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court.
38. Robing room of the Judges of the Supreme Court.
39. Withdrawing room of the Supreme Court.
40. Office of the Marshal of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court, formerly the Senate Cham-
ber.

The Old Hall of the House of Representatives is
now used as a statuary hall, to which each State has
been invited to contribute two statues of its most
distinguished citizens.

The Congressional Library contains 590,000 vol-
umes and 180,000 pamphlets.

Room.

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