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improvement of the building used for the purposes of the said observ- 

 atory, and the same is hereby reappropriated and made available for 

 expenditure during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine 

 for the object set forth. (Deficiency appropriation act for 1898; Stat- 

 utes of 1897-98, chap. 571, p. 662.) 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



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 incis- 

 ures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals, includ- 

 ing salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase 

 of necessary books and periodicals, and general incidental expenses 

 not otherwise provided for, sixty-five thousand dollars; 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 five thousand dollars shall be used for con- 

 tinuing the entrance into the Zoological Park from Woodley Lane, and 

 opening driveway into Zoological Park, from said entrance along the 

 bank of Eock Creek. (Sundry civil act approved July 1, 1898; Statutes 

 of 1897-98, chap. 546, p. 608.) 



For the purpose of opening Cathedral avenue in accordance with 

 the highway extension plans, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby 

 authorized and directed to convey all right and title of the United 

 States in and to a jmrcel of land bounded on the north by block two of 

 the subdivision called Meridian Hill, and on the east by the east line 

 of said block two extended southward, and on the west by the east 

 line of Sixteenth street west as said line is now extended and laid down 

 through said block two, and on the south by a line parallel to W street 

 of the city of Washington and distant ninety feet north from the south 

 line of said W street, to the parties owning a good and unincumbered 

 title in fee simple to lots numbered twenty-two to twenty-nine, both 

 inclusive, in block numbered five of the subdivision called Woodley 

 Park, in the District of Columbia, containing about one hundred and 

 three thousand five hundred square feet of land, and adjoining the land 

 of the United States embraced in the Zoological Park, upon the con- 

 veyance by said parties of the said lots to the United States : Pro- 

 vided, That said lots in said Woodley Park, when so conveyed to the 

 United States as aforesaid, shall become part of the said Zoological 

 Park and shall be subject to the inclusion of so much of the same on 

 said Cathedral avenue as may be necessary for the purpose of opening 

 the said avenue. (Sundry civil act approved July 1, 1898; Statutes of 

 1897-98, chap. 546, p. 616.) 

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