REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. XHX 



General expenses — Continued. 



Electric power |54. 59 



Lain ber 3. 36 



Postage and telegraph .99 



Services ^ 6. 00 



Supplies 154. 27 



Traveling expenses 17. 00 



Total disbursements SI , 21 2. 79 



Balance July 1 , 1901 2. 99 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, 1899. 



Balance a.s per last report, July 1, 1900 $3. 97 



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

 Treasury Department to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1901. 



OBSERVATION OF ECLIPSE OF MAY 2S, 1900. 



Balance July 1 , 1900, as per last report $1, 529. 20 



mSBURSEMKNTS. 



General expenses: 



Apparatus $437. 64 



Freight 62. 75 



Supplies 47. 39 



Telephone and telegraph 33. 48 



Transportation .' 3. 00 



Travel and field expenses 189. 20 



Total disbursements $773. 46 



Balance July 1, 1901 755. 74 



N.\TIOXAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 1901. 

 RECEIPTS. 



Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, "for 

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

 sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise 

 improving the grounds; erecting and repairing l)uildings and inclos- 

 ures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals, includ- 

 ing salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase 

 of nece.'isary books and periodicals, and general incidental expenses 

 not otherwise provided for, seventy-five thousand dollars; one-half of 

 which sum shall Ite paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia 

 and the other half from the Treasury of the I'nited States; and of the 

 sum hereby appropriated, five thousand dollars shall be used for con- 

 tinuing the entrance into the Zoological Park from Cathedral avenue, 

 and opening driveway into Zoological Park, including necessary grad- 

 ing and removal of earth : Provided, That the unexpended balance of the 

 amounts, aggregating eight thousand dollars, heretofore appropriated 

 for widening, grading, and regulating Adams Mill road from Columbia 

 road to the Zoological Park entrance, is hereby reappropriated, to be 

 expended under the direction of the Conunissioners of the District of 

 Columbia; and that the control of Adams Mill road is hereby vested 

 in the said Commissioners, and all proceedings necessary to purchase 



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