REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. LI 



General expenses — Continned. 



Machinery, tools, etc $44. 53 



Miscellaneous supplies 112. 48 



Paints, oils, etc 61. 91 



Postage, telegrams, and telephones 72. 67 



Purchase of animals 30. 12 



Roa 1 )naterial and grading 1, 166. 49 



.Stationery, books, etc 65. 20 



Surveying, plans, etc 256. 25 



Travel and field expenses 41 . 80 



Trees, plants, etc '. 35. 00 



Water supply, etc 24. 88 



Total disbursements " $5, 477. 97 



Balance July 1, 1903 7. 26 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 1901. 



Balance July 1 , 1902, as per last report .?17. 28 



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

 Department, to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1903. 



ELEPHANT HOUSE, NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 1903, 



Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, "for 

 the construction of an elephant house, with l)athing pools and other 

 accessories, including labor and materials and all necessary incidental 

 expenses, ten thousand dollars, one-half of which sums for the National 

 Zoological Park shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Colum- 

 bia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States " (sundry 

 civil act June 28, 1902 ) .'SI 0, 000. 00 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Advertising |18. 15 



Drawings, plans, etc 435. 00 



Construction of building and accessories 8, 971. 83 



Labor, outside of contract 51 0. 62 



Total dis])ursements 9, 9.35. 60 



Balance July 1 , 1903 64. 40 



Rp:CAPrrULATION. 



The total amount of funds administered by the Institution during tlie year ending 

 June 30, 1903, appears from the foregoing statements and account books to have 

 been as follows: 



SMITH.SONIAN IXSTITITION. 



From balance of last year, July 1, 1902 $81, 1 20. 91 



From interest on Smithsonian fund for the year 54, 720. 00 



From interest on West SIk >re b( mds 1, 680. 00 



From sales of publications 329. 87 



From repayments, freight, et(' 11, 105. 50 



1148, 956. 28 



