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not exceeding one thousand lire hundred copies, repairs and alteration 

 of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, ten thousand dollars. (Sun- 

 dry civil act for 1900, approved March 3, 1899. Statutes, XXX, 1086.) 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



National Zoological Pari'.— For continuing the construction of 

 roads, walks, bridges, water supph^ sewerage and drainage; and for 

 grading, planting, and otherwise 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, 

 and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, seventy- 

 five thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the 

 revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treas- 

 ury of the United States; and of the sum hereb}^ appropriated five 

 thousand dollars shall be used for continuing the entrance into the 

 Zoological Park from Woodley Lane, and opening driveway into Zoo- 

 logical Park, from said entrance along the bank of Rock Creek, and 

 five thousand dollars shall be expended in widening the Adams Mill 

 road entrance to the Zoological Park from the corner of Eighteenth 

 street and Columbia road, by acquiring by purchase or condemnation 

 of land sufficient to widen the same to a width of one hundred feet, 

 and such road, so widened, shall form a parkway under the control of 

 the Zoological Park. (Sundry civil act for 1900, approved March 3, 

 1899. Statutes, XXX, 1086.) 



PHILADELPHIA COMMERCIAL EXPOSITION. 



AN ACT providing for a national exposition of American products and manufactures 

 at the city of Philadelphia, for the encouragement of the expox't trade. 



Se it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assemhled^ That there shall be held a 

 national exposition of American products and manufactures, suitable 

 for export, at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, in 

 the year eighteen hundred and ninety nine, under the auspices of the 

 Philadelphia Exposition Association; and that there may be admitted 

 to said exposition su(!h articles not of American manufacture and such 

 other objects as may conduce to the interest of the exposition and ma}'' 

 1)0 useful for comparison with American products and manufactures: 

 Provided.) That the United States shall not be liable for any of the 

 expenses attending or incident to such an exposition, nor by reason of 

 the same, further than hereinafter provided for. 



Sec. 2. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign coun- 

 tries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition, upon which 

 there shall be a tariff or customs dut}', shall be admitted free of pay- 



