REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. XLI 



General expenses — C'ontinned. 



Stationery $2. 25 



Supplies, etc 332. 53 



$3, 009. 14 



Total disbursements $9, 247. 64 



Balance July 1, 1899, to meet liabilities. 752. 36 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERV.\.TORY, 1898. 



Balance July 1, 1898, as per last report $2, 701. 78 



Appropriation by Congre.ss "that the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution is hereby authorized to apply any unexpended balance of the 

 appropriation for the Astro physical Observatory, Smithsonian Institution, 

 for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 eight, to the improvement of the building used for the purposes of the 

 said observatory, and the same is hereby reappropriated and made avail- 

 able for expenditure during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 nine for the object set forth." (Deficiency act July 7, 1898.) 



Disbursements July 1, 1S98, to June 30, 1S99. 

 (leneral expenses: 



Apparatus $390.43 



Books 53. 83 



Freight 5. 20 



Lum])er 1. 62 



Improvement of building 2, 235. 00 



Supplies, etc 15. 53 



— 2, 701. 61 



Balance July 1, 1899 ^ .17 



APPROPRIATION, ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1897. 



Balance July 1, 1898, as per last report .$23. 42 



Apparatus 23. 41 



Balance .01 



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

 Treasury Department to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1899. 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 1899. 



Receipts. 



Appropriation by Congress "for continuing the construction of roads, 

 walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, 

 l^lanting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and rej^airing 

 l)uildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transporta- 

 tion of animals, including salaries or comi)ensation of all necessary 

 employees, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and gen- 

 eral incidental expenses not otherwise proviiled for, sixty-five thou- 

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

 the District of Columbia and the other lialf 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 Woodley lane and opening driveway into Zoological Park Irww 

 said entrance along the bank of Rock Creek" (sundry civil at-t, July 1, 

 1898) "... $65,000.00 



