ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. XXXIX 



reuiaiuder of this fiscal year and for the fiscal year eiidiug' J ime thirtieth, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-one, out of any money in the Treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, 

 or so much thereof as may be necessary : Provided, That the United 

 States shall not be liable, on account of the erection of buildings, ex- 

 penses ofthe commission or any of its officers or employees, or on account 

 of any expenses incident to or growing out of said exposition for a sum 

 exceeding in the aggregate one million five hundred thousand dollars. 



Sec. 19, That the commissioners and alternate commissioners ap- 

 pointed under this act shall not be entitled to any compensation for 

 their services out of the Treasury of the United States, except their 

 actual expenses for transportation and the sum of six dollars per day 

 for subsistence for each day they are necessarily absent from their 

 homes on the business of said commission. The officers of said com- 

 mission shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by said com- 

 mission, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, which 

 shall be paid out of the sums approi)riated by Congress in aid of such 

 exposition. 



Sec. 20. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to create 

 any liability of the United States, direct or indirect, for any debt or 

 obligation incurred, nor for any claim for aid or pecuniary assistance 

 from Congress or ttie Treasury of the United States in support or liqui- 

 dation of any debts or obligations created by said commission in excess 

 of appropriations made by Congress therefor. 



Sec. 21. That nothing in this act shall bo so construed as to override 

 or interfere with the laws of any State, and all contracts made in any 

 State for the purposes of the exhibition shall be subject to the laws 

 thereof. 



Sec. 22. That no member of said commission, whether an officer or 

 otherwise, shall be personally liable for any debt or obligation which 

 may be created or incurred by the said commission. 



Approved, April 25, 1890. 



Chap. 173. —AN ACT for the organization, improvement, and maintenance of the 



National Zoological Park. 



Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That the one-half of the follow- 

 ing sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money 

 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of 

 the revenues of the District of Columbia, for the organization, improve- 

 ment, and maintenance of the National Zoological Park, to be expended 

 under the direction of the Eegents of the Smithsonian Institution, and 

 to be drawn on their requisition and disbursed by the disbursing officer 

 for said Institution : 



For the shelter of animals, fifteen thousand dollars. 



For shelter-barns, cages, fences, and inclosures, and other provisions 

 for the custody of animals, nine thousand dollars. 



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

 pancy, and for office furniture, two thousand dollars. 



For the creation of artificial ponds and other provisions for aquatic 

 animals, two thousand dollars, 



For water supply, sewerage, and drainage, seven thousand dollars. 



For roads, walks, and bridges, fifteen thousand dollars. 



For miscellaneous supplies, materials, and sundry iiKudeutal ex- 

 penses not otherwise provided for, five thousand dollars. 



