ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. XLII 
For erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures for animals and 
for administrative purposes, in the national Zoological Park, including 
salaries or compensation of all unecessary employees, eighteen thousand 
doliars; 
For care, subsistence, and transportation of animals for the National 
Zoological Park, and for the purpose [purchase] of rare specimens not 
otherwise obtainable, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 
employees, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, 
seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty thousand five 
hundred dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid froin the revenues 
of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the 
United States. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved March 3, 
1891). 
ASTRO-PHYSICAL OBSERVATORY 
For maintenance of astro-physical observatory, under the direction 
of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants and the 
purchase of additional apparatus, ten thousand dollars. (Sundry civil 
appropriation act, approved March 3, 1891.) 
WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, 
GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT. For the selection, purchase, preparation, 
and arrangement of such articles and materiais as the heads of the 
several Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and Na- 
tional Museum, and the United States Fish Commission may decide 
shall be embraced in the Government exhibit, and such additional ar- 
ticles as the President may designate for said Exposition, and for the 
employment of proper persons as officers and assistants to the Board 
of Control and Management of the Government exhibit, appointed by 
the President, of w hich not exceeding five thousand dollars may be 
expended by the said board for clerical services, the sum of three hun- 
dred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the service 
of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- 
two, and any moneys heretofore appropriated i in aid of said Government 
exhibit may be used in like manner an@ for like purposes: Provided, 
‘That all expenditures made for the purposes and from the appropria- 
tion herein specified 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. 
W oRLD’S COLUMBIAN COMMISSION. For the World’s Columbian 
Commission, ninety-five thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum 
thirty-six thousand dollars shall be used for the Board of Lady Man- 
agers. 
For expenses connected with the admission of foreign goods to the 
Exposition, as set forth in section twelve of the act creating the Com- 
mission, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, 
twenty thousand dollars; 
For contingent expenses of the World’s Congress Auxiliary of the 
World’s Columbian Exposition, two thousand five hundred dollars. 
And the several sums herein appropriated for the World’s Colum- 
bian Exposition shall be deemed a part of the sum of one million five 
hundred thousand dollars, the limit of liability of the United States 
on account thereof fixed by the act of April twenty-fifth, eighteen ~ 
hundred and ninety, authorizing said Exposition. (Sundry civil appro- 
priation act, approved March 3, 1891.) 
