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drawn on their requisition and disbursed by the disbursing officer for 
said institution.” . 
In line 28, same page, after the words ‘‘ United States,” insert the 
following: ‘‘and the District of Columbia.” . 
These amendments are recommended in order to require that one- 
half of the sums appropriated by the bill shall be paid from the reve- 
nues of the District of Columbia, in pursuance of what was clearly the 
intent of Congress in providing, originally, for the establishment of 
the Zoological Park, on the regular District of Columbia appropria- 
tion act for the current fiscal year, and as interpreted in the following 
opinion of the First Comptroller of the Treasury: 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, First COMPTROLLER’S OFFICE, 
Washington, D. C., August 1, 1889. 
Str: Your letter of late date in which you ask if any part of the appropriation for 
the Zoological Park provided for in the act of Congress approved March 2, 1889, 
making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the District for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1890, and for other purposes, is chargeable to the revenues of the 
District of Columbia, has my careful attention, and in reply thereto I have the honor 
to make the following statement and express the following opinion: 
The act of Congress is found on page 793, vol. 25, Statutes at Large, and is entitled 
‘“‘An act making appropriation to provide for the expenses of the government of the 
District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, and for other purposes,’’ 
and among other things provides ‘‘that the half of the following sums named, 
respectively, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia for 
the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the District of 
Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, namely:’’ : 
These words to give the law proper force must be held to extend to every section 
of the bill, unless in some section it is expressly otherwise provided. The law would 
then read, so far as it has any application to the question at issue, ‘‘That half of the 
following sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the 
District of Columbia, for the purposes following * * * namely: 
‘Sec. 4. For the establishment of a Zoological Park in the District of Columbia, 
$200,000, to be expended under and in accordance with the provisions following, 
that is to say:”’ ; 
The statute then goes on to give the manner of appointing the commission, to give 
the approximate location of the park, and points out the manner of condemnation of 
the land in the event it can not be purchased by the commission at a fair compensa- 
tion, and to provide for the survey of the land taken. In my opinion the statute 
makes the legislative intent about as plain as language can make it. Argument can 
add but little to the force of it as expressed. 
You state that ‘‘section 4, under the head of the water department, provides for 
the establishment of a Zoological Park in the District of Columbia.’”’ This, in my 
opinion, is a misapprehension. The provision to carry on the operations of the water 
department, to be paid for wholly from the revenues of that department, is found in 
the latter part of section 1. Then follows sections 2 and 3, pertaining to District of 
Columbia matters, which is followed by section 4, concluding the chapter, 370. 
The reasons set out in your letter, such as ‘‘the object of the park;’’ the ‘‘advance- 
ment of science,’’ and the ‘‘instruction and recreation of the people;’’ that the park 
will be ‘‘under the control of the United States;’’ that ‘‘the ‘instruction and recrea- 
