REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. XXXI 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



Appropriation by Congress "for the organization, improvement, and 



maintenance of the National Zoological Park." 



Beit enacted 1)1/ the Senate and House of Representatives of tlie United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That the oue-half of the following sums named respectively is 

 hereby appropriated out of any money iu the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 

 and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, for the organi- 

 zation, improvement, and maintenance of the National Zoological Park, to be ex- 

 pended under the direction of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and to be 

 drawn ou their requisition and disbursed by the disbursing officer of said Institution: 



For the shelter of animals $15,000.00 



For shelter barns, cages, fences, and iuclosures, and other provisions 



for the custody of animals 9, 000. 00 



For repairs to the Holt mansion to make the same suitable for occu- 



l>aucy, and for office furniture 2, 000. 00 



For the creation of artificial ponds and other provisions for aquatic 



animals 2,000.00 



For water supply, sewerage, and drainage 7, 000. 00 



For roads, walks, and bridges 15,000. 00 



For miscellaneous supplies, materials, and sundry incidental expenses 



not otherwise provided for 5, 000. 00 



For current expenses, including the maintenance of collections, food 



supplies, salaries of all necessary employes, and the acquisition and 



transportation of specimens 37,000.00 



Sec. 2. That the National Zoological Park is hereby placed under the 

 direction of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, who are author- 

 ized to transfer to ic any living specimens, whether of animals or plants, 

 now or hereafter in their charge ; to accept gifts for the park, at their dis- 

 cretion, iu the name of the United States; to make exchanges of speci- 

 mens, and to administer the said Zoological Park for the advancement of 

 science and the instruction and recreation of the people". 



Sec. o. That the heads of Executive Departments of the Government 

 are hereby authorized and directed 1o cause to be rendered all necessary 

 and iiracticitl aid to the said Regents in the acquisition of collections for 

 the Zoological Park. 



Approved April 30, 1890. 



92, 000. 00 

 Expenditures from April 30, 1890, to June 30, 1890. 



Shelter barns, cages, etc $43 83 



Miscellaneous supplies 157 57 



Current expenses 717 10 



Total expenditures National Zoological Park 91H. 50 



Balance July 1, 1890... ...■ 91,081.50 



RECAPITULATION. 



The total amount of the funds administered by the Institution dur- 

 ing the year ending June 30, 1890, appears, from the foregoing state- 

 ments and the account books, to have been as follows : 



From balance of last year, July 1, 1889 $11,757.47 



From interest on Smithsonian fund for the year 42, IbO. 00 



From sales of publications 416. 01 



From repayments for freights, etc 3,489.50 



From special gifts for astrophysical research 10, 000. 00 



Total 67,842.98 



