XLIV REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



General expenses — Continued. 



Supplies $578. 52 



Spei'ial services 869. 72 



— $3, 155. 92 



Total (lisl)ursenientH $9, 746. 31 



Balance July 1, 1902 2, 253. 69 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, 1901. 



Balance July 1, 1901, as per last report $79. 80 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



General expenses: 



Apparatus $25. GO 



Books 8. 28 



Gas and electricity 24. 22 



Supplies 21. 38 



Total disbursements 78. 88 



Balance July 1 , 1902 .92 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, 1900. 



Balance July 1, 1901, as per last report $2. 99 



Balance carried, under provisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treas- 

 ury Department to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1902. 



OBSERVATION OF ECLIPSE OP MAY 28, 1900. 



Balance July 1, 1902, as per last report $755. 74 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 1902. 



KECEIPTS. 



Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, "for 

 continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, 

 sewerage, drainage, and for grading, planting, and otlierwise improving 

 the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, sub- 

 sistence, 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, eighty thousand dollars; one- 

 half of which sum shall l)e jiaid from the revenues of the District of 

 Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States, 

 and of the sum hereby appro])riated iivc; thousand dollars shall be used 

 for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park, from Cathedral 

 avenue and opening driveway into the Zoological Park, including neces- 

 sary grading and removal of earth " (sundry civil act, March 3, 1901) . $80, 000. 00 



niSBUKSEMENTS. 



Salaries or compensatidu: 



1 superintendent, 12 months, at $225 $2, 700. 00 



1 property clerk, 12 months, at $150 1, 800. 00 



1 clerk, 12 months, at $110 1, 320. 00 



1 clerk, 12 months, at $100 1,200.00 



