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924 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 189. 1895. For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture, repairs, and extra labor, and for traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, four thousand five hundred dollars, For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousand dollars. Anowsnm. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field torce ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), or to officers of the Navy attached to the Survey, except as now provided by law. · t§°·:¤h¤•¤¤i¤¤ I¤¤*=i¤¤- UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. N==¤·>¤m1M¤¤¤¤·¤- NATIONAL MUSEUM: For continuing the preservation, exhibition, u.,1;,‘Qf“°'"”“' °°u°°` and increase of the collections irom the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and forty- three thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars. Furniture-` For cases, furniture, iixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and satekeeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. ,n¤¤u¤;,¤u-. For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum, thirteen thousand dollars. romp. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars. Rvrain- For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including all necessary labor and material, four thousand dollars. Ram:. For rent of workshops for the National Museum, nine hundred dol» lars. P£¤¤¤¤1 Z¤¤1¤zi<=¤1 NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK: For continuing the construction of nxinm. roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drain age ; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds ; erecting, and repairing buildings and inclosures for animals; and for administrative purposes, care, subsistence, and transportation of animals, including salares or compen ation of all necessary employees, and general incidental Gun-half from Dis- expenses not otherwise provided for, fifty-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; for continuing the entrance into the Zoological Park from Woodley Lane, and opening driveway into Zoological Park, from said entrance ' along the west bank of Bock Creek, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasurynot otherwise appropriated, one-half chargeable to the revenues of the District of Columbia. And of the sum hereby approprinted five thousand dollars shall be used toward the construction of a road from the Holt Mansion entrance (on Adams Mill road) into the park to connect with the roads now in existence, including a bridge across Rock Creek. ‘ Am-opirysmn ob. Asrnornrsron. OBsnnvA1•onY: For maintenance of Astrophysical "°"““""" Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, apparatus, and miscellaneous expenses. nine thousand dollars. ' International ex- ImumNAr10NAL EXCHANGES: For expenses of the system of inter- °h""°" national exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, seventeen thousand dollars. Fire protection- Fmn PROTECTION, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AND NATIONAL MUSEUM: For expenses of putting in four additional fire plugs in the Smithsonian grounds for the better protection of the Smithsonian