LXII ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



one-half of which .sum «hall be paid from the revenues of the District 

 of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United 

 States; and of the sum hereby- appropriated five thousand dollars shall 

 be used for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park from 

 Cathedral avenue and opening driveway into Zoological Park, includ- 

 ing necessary grading and removal of earth: Provided, That the unex- 

 pended balance of the amounts, aggregating eight thousand dollars, 

 heretofore appropriated for widening, grading, and regulating Adams 

 Mill road from Columbia road to the Zoological Park entrance is 

 hereby reappropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Com- 

 missioners of the District of Columbia; and that the control of Adams 

 Mill road is hereby vested in the said Commissioners, and all proceed- 

 ings necessary to purchase or condemn the land necessary to widen 

 said road as authorized by Act approved March third, eighteen hun- 

 dred and ninety-nine, providing for sundry civil expenses of the Gov- 

 ernment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, 

 and for other purposes, shall be taken })y said Commissioners. 



For construction of a bridge across Rock Creek on the line of the 

 roadway from Quarry road entrance, under the direction of the Engi- 

 neer Conmiissioner of the District of Columl)ia, twenty-two thousand 

 dollars, one-half of which sum shall l)e paid out of the revenues of the 

 District of Columbia. (Sundry civil act for 1901, approved June H, 

 1900; Statutes, XXXI, 603.) 



The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is hereby authorized 

 to reimburse in the amount of two hundred and seven dollars and 

 seventj'-three cents, from the appropriation "National Zoological 

 Park, nineteen hundred," the oflicial account of John W. Morse, 

 assistant paymaster. United States Navv. for expenditures incurred 

 in the purchase, care, and forwarding of a collection of live animals 

 for the National Zoological Park during the fiscal year ending June 

 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. (Deficiencv act for 1900, 

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



For grading and regulating Cathedral avenue from Connecticut 

 avenue to Woodley road and the highway along the west border of the 

 Zoological Park from Woodley road to Cathedral avenue, as shown on 

 the plan of the permanent system of highways, third section, twent\'- 

 one thousand dollars: Provided, That parties interested first deposit 

 with the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia an equal sum to 

 be used toward defraying the cost of the work: And provided, That 

 the full width of the highway bordering the Zoological Park be donated 

 to the District of Columbia whenever it lies within the limits of Wood- 

 ley Park. 



And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereb}' 

 authorized to use as a highway so much of the Zoological Park as lies 

 within the lines of said proposed highway. 



