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improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; 
care, subsistencé, transportation, and purchase of animals, including 
salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and for general 
incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, $75,000. 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK—APPROPRIATIONS. 
April 24, 1896—Senate. 
Sundry civil bill for 1897 under consideration. 
The next amendment was, in line 23, page 33, to increase the appro- 
priation for the National Zoological Park from $65,000 to $70,000. 
_ Agreed to. 
June 8, 1896. 
Deficiency act for 1896, etc. 
For repairs to the Holt Mansion, to make the same suitable for 
occupancy, and for office furniture, including the accounts set forth 
hereunder in House Document No. 324 of this session, $426.57. 
- To reimburse the Smithsonian fund for assuming the expenses of 
labor and materials for repairs urgently necessary for the preservation 
of the Holt Mansion, including the accounts set forth hereunder in 
House Document No. 324 of this session, $499.45. 
(Stat., XXX, 279.) 
June 11, 1896. 
Sundry civil act for 1897. 
For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water sup- 
ply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise 
improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclo- 
sures; care, subsistence, transportation of animals, including salaries 
or compensation of all necessary employees, and general incidental 
expenses not otherwise provided for, $67,000; one-half of which sum 
shall 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 $5,000 shall be used for continuing the entrance 
into the Zoological Park from Woodley lane, and opening driveway 
into Zoological Park, from said entrance along the bank of Rock 
Creek, and $5,000 shall be used toward the construction of a road 
fromthe Holt Mansion entrance (on Adams Mill road) into the park 
to connect with the roads now in existence, including a bridge across 
Rock Creek.. 
(Stat., X XTX, 425.) 
INTERNATIONAL PERMANENT EXHIBITION COMPANY IN NEW YORK CITY. 
December 26, 1895—House. 
Mr. Witii1am Sutzer introduced bill (H. 2762) to establish an 
international permanent exhibition company in New York, the Smith- 
