ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. LXI 



essary books and periodicals, lifty thousand dollars, of which sum not 

 exceeding!;' one thousand live hundred dollars may be used for rent of 

 building. (Sundry civil act for 1901, approved June 6, 1900; Statutes, 

 XXXI, 602.) 



To pay amounts found due bv the accounting officers of the Treasury 

 on account of the appropriation "American Ethnology, Smithsonian 

 Institution," for the fiscal j^ear eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, 

 thirty-four dollars and ninety-one cents. (Deficiency act for 1900, 

 approved June 6, 1900; Statutes, XXXI, 286.) 



Resolved hy the House of Hejyreseyitatives {the Semite concurring), 

 That there be printed at the Government Printing Office eight thousand 

 copies of any matter furnished by the Director of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology relating to researches and discoveries connected with the 

 study of the American aborigines, the same to be issued as bulletins 

 uniform with the annual reports, one thousand five hundred of which 

 shall be for the use of the Senate, three thousand for the use of the 

 House of Representatives, and .three thousand five hundred for distri- 

 bution by the Bureau. (Passed House April 7, 1900; passed Senate 

 April 27, 1900; Statutes, XXXI, 10, concurrent resolutions.) 



ASTROPHYSICAI. OBSERVATORY. 



For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the 

 purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, printing and 

 publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hun- 

 dred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings and ndscellaneous 

 expenses, twelve thousand dollars. (Sundry civil act for 1901, 

 approved June 6, 1900; Statutes, XXXI, 6<)2.) 



Observation of eclipse of May twent^^-eighth, nineteen hundred: 

 For cost of apparatus, transportation of observers and equipment, 

 subsistence, reduction of observations, printing and publishing of 

 results, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, and employ- 

 ment of such temporar}^ aid as may be required, including all neces- 

 sary field and other expenses, four thousand dollars. (Urgent defi- 

 ciency act for 1900, approved February 9, 1900; Statutes, XXXI, 11.) 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water 

 suppty, 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 necessaiy books and periodicals, and general incidental 

 expenses not otherwise provided for, seventy-five thousand dollars; 



