ACTS AND RESOLTTTION OF CONGRESS. LIII 



For repairs to building-s, .shops, and sheds, National Museum, inchid- 

 ing- all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. 



For rent of workshops and temporar}^ storag-e quarters for the 

 National Museum, four thousand live hundred and eighty dollars. 



For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, 

 five hundred dollars. (Approved March S, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 

 1165, 1166.) 



For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and 

 for the "Bulletins''' and '* Proceed ing-.s'' of the National Museum, the 

 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 by the National 

 Museum Library, twenty-five thousand dollars. (Approved March 8, 

 1905; Statutes, "XXXIII, 1212.) 



For l)Ooks, National Museum, four dollars and thirty four cents. 

 (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1257.) 



XATIOXAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, 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 necessar}' books and periodicals, the printing and publish- 

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

 general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including pur- 

 chase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for 

 official purposes, ninet3^-five thousand dollars; one-half of which sum 

 shall he paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the 

 other half from the Treasury of the United States. (Approved March 

 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1166.) 



To pa}' amounts found due I)}' the accounting officers of the Treas- 

 ury on account of the appropriation "National Zoological Park," for 

 the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred and fift}' 

 dollars. (Approved March 3, 1905; Statutes, XXXIII, 1219.) 



PROVISION AGAINST DEFICIENCIES. 



That section thirty-six hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised 

 Statutes of the United States is hereby amended to read as follows: 



"Sec. 3679. No Department of the Government shall expend, in 

 any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Con- 

 gress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract 



