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editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and 

 binding, in half turkey, or material not more expensive, scientific 

 books and pamphlets presented to and acquired ])y the National 

 Museum Iji])rary, seventeen thousand dollars. (Api)rov«'d March ?>, 

 11>01; Statutes, XXXI, 1187.) 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



For continuing- ethnological researches among the American Indians, 

 under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries 

 or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of neces- 

 sary books and periodicals, fifty thousand dollars, of which sum not 

 exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may l)e used for rent of 

 building. (Approved March 3, 1!»01; Statutes, XXXI, ll-t6.) 



For payment of outstiinding accounts for transportation incurred 

 during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven under the 

 appropriation " North American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution," 

 forty-seven dollars and sixty-one cents. (Approved March 3, 1901; 

 Statute, XXXI, 1018.) 



NATIONAL ZOOLO(4ICAU PARK. 



For continuing the construction of roads, walks, V)ridges, water 

 supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and other- 

 wise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and 

 inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; 

 including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees; the 

 purchase of necessary books and periodicals, the piinting and pul)lish- 

 ing of operations, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, and 

 general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, eighty thou- 

 sand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues 

 of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the 

 United States; and of the sum hereby appropriated five thousand dol- 

 lars shall be used for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park 

 from Cathedral avemie and opening driveway into Zoological Park, 

 including necessary grading and removal of earth. (Approved March 3, 

 1901; Statutes, XXXI, ll-tT.) 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY. 



For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the 

 purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, printing and 

 publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hun- 

 dred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous 

 expenses, twelve thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution is directed to rei)ort to Congress on the first day of 



