XLVIII ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



iires for animals; and for administrative purposes, care, subsistence, 

 and transportation of animals, including salaries or compensation of 

 all necessary enii)loyees, and general incideDtal expenses not otherwise 

 jirovided for, fitty thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be 

 paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half 

 froni the Treasury of the United States; and a report in detail of the 

 expenses on account of the National Zoological Park shall be made to 

 Congress at the beginning of each regular session. (Sundry civil ap- 

 IH'opriation act. Chap. o80. Statutes, j). oCIO. Approved August 5, 

 1892.) 



For care and subsistence of animals for the National Zoological Park, 

 fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninetytwo, one thousand dollars, one- 

 half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the ])istrict of 

 Columbia, and the other half from the treasury of the United States. 

 (Deficiency appropriation act. Chap, lli, Statutes, p. (i. Approved 

 March 8, 1802.) 



To pay Melville Lindsay for rubber boots furnished to employees 

 engaged to work in water in the National Zoological Park, being a 

 deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, thirty- 

 eight dollars. (Deficiencies appropriation act. Chap. 311. Statutes, 

 p. 284. Approved July 28, 18!>2.) 



world's (T)LITMBIAN exposition at CHICAGO. 



Treasury Dcparimenf: For the selection, j^urchase, preparation, 

 transportation, installation, care and custody, and arrangement of su<'h 

 articles and materials as the heads of the several Executive Depart- 

 ments, the Smithsonian Institution, and National Museum, and the 

 United States Fish Commission may decide shall be end^raced in the 

 Government exhibit, and such additional articles as the President may 

 designate for said Exi^osition, and for the employment of proper per- 

 sons as officers and assistants to the Board of Control and Manage- 

 ment of the Government exhibit, ai)i)ointed by the President, of which 

 not exceeding five thousand dollars nuiy be expended by said Board for 

 clerical services, four hundred and eight thousand two hundred and 

 fifty dollars: rrorided That all expenditures for the pur])oses and from 

 the approi)riation specified herein shall be subject to the approval of 

 the said Board of Control and Management and of the Secretary of 

 the Treasury, as now^ provided by law. (Sundry civil a])propriation 

 act. Chap. 380. Statutes, p. 302. Approved August 5, 1892.) 



COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



State Department: Vox the expense of representation of the United 

 States at the Columbian Historical Exposition to be held in Madrid m 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-two in commemoration of the four hun- 

 dredth aniversary of the discovery of America, fifteen thousand dol- 

 lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under 

 tiie direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of State: and the 

 President is hereby authorized to appoint a cominissioner-gcneral and 

 two assistant commissioners, who may, in his discretion, be selected 

 from the active or retired list of the Army or Navy, and shall serve 

 without other compensation than that to which they are now entitled 

 by law, to represent the United States at said exposition; that it shall 

 be the duty of such commissioners to sc^lcc t froin the archives of the 

 United States, from the National JMuseum. and from the various execu- 



