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The entire history of a purchase, and payment therefor, is as 

 follows : 



1. Requisition from staff officer to Director. 



2. Inspection and approval of requisition, and designation of 

 proper fund to bear the expense. 



3. Issue by Chief Clerk of official " order for supplies." 



4. Delivery of goods at storehouse, with list, checked by Store- 

 keeper. 



5. Delivery of list by Storekeeper, signed by him. 



6. Inspection and approval of goods by the requisitioner. 



7. Delivery of goods to person for whom ordered. 



8. Delivery of bill to Chief Clerk, duly checked and approved 

 as to " goods and prices," by requisitioner. 



9. Examination, amendment or approval of bill by Director. 



10. Examination, amendment or approval of bill by Chairman 

 of Executive Committee. 



11. Issue of order on Treasurer by Chairman of Executive 

 Committee. 



12. Payment of bill by Treasurer. 



13. Filing of receipted bill in its proper file, in Chief Clerk's 

 office. 



The Executive Committee has enabled the Director to estab- 

 lish a business system which, while affording the utmost celerity 

 in making necessary purchases, and also providing a reasonable 

 number of safeguards, yet is in no way cumbersome nor over- 

 burdened with " red tape." Ordinarily, bills are paid by the Treas- 

 urer within ten days from their receipt at the Park office in satis- 

 factory form. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



By no means the least of the Director's duties during the past 

 year was the drafting of two sets of " Rules and Regulations 

 for the Zoological Park," one relating to the public, the other to 

 the employees. Inasmuch as the New York Zoological Park is, 

 in an administrative sense, quite different from all other of the 

 institutions of its class, there were comparatively few precedents 

 which could be followed, and its status had to be created, prac- 

 tically de novo. It was, perhaps, a fortunate circumstance that 

 the opening day came near the end of the annual season of good 



