The total expenditures of this appropriation have been as follows: The total amount of the funds administered by the Institution during the year ending 30th of June, 1883, appears, from the foregoing statements and the account books, to have been as follows: Appropriations committed by Congress to the care of the Institution. The committee has examined the vouchers for payments made from the Smithsonian income during the year ending 30th June, 1889, all of which bear the approval of the Secretary of the Institution, or, in his absence, of the assistant secretary as acting Secretary, and a certificate that the materials and services charged were applied to the purposes of the Institution. The committee has also examined the accounts of the "international exchanges," and of the "National Museum," and finds that the bal ances above given correspond with the certificates of the disbursing clerk of the Smithsonian Institution, whose appointment as such disbursing officer was accepted, and his bonds approved, by the Secretary of the Treasury. The quarterly accounts-current, the vouchers and journals, have been examined and found correct. The abstracts of expenditures and balance sheets under the appropriation for "North American ethnology" have been exhibited to us; the vouchers for the expenditures, after approval by the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology, are paid by the disbursing clerk of said Bureau, and after approval by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu tion are transmitted to the accounting officers of the Treasury Depart ment for settlement. The disbursing officer of the Bureau is accepted as such and his bonds approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. The balance available to meet outstanding liabilities on 1st July, 1889, as reported by the disbursing clerk of the Bureau, is $13,491.22. Statement of regular income from the Smithsonian fund, to be available for use in the year ending June 30, 1890. ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. (In continuation from previous reports.) [Fiftieth Congress, second session, 1888–89. ] INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES-SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifteen thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved March 2, 1889. Statutes, XXV, p. 952.) NAVAL OBSERVATORY: For payment to Smithsonian Institution for freight on Observatory publications sent to foreign countries, one hundred and thirty-six dollars. (Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act. Approved February 26, 1889. Statutes, XXV, p. 733.) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE: For purchase of books, and expenses of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign Governments, three thousand dollars. (Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriations act. Approved February 26, 1889. Statutes, XXV, p. 737.) WAR DEPARTMENT: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved March 2, 1889. Statutes XXV, p. 970.) UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, five thousand dollars; in all four hundred and three thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved March 2, 1889. Statutes XXV, p. 960.) NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. For the purpose of continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved March 2, 1889. Statutes XXV, p. 952.) H. Mis. 224——III XXXIII NATIONAL MUSEUM. HEATING AND LIGHTING: For expense of heating the United States National Museum for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty nine, one thousand dollars. (Act to supply deficiencies. Approved March 2, 1889. Statutes XXV, p. 909.) HEATING AND LIGHTING: For expense of heating, lighting, and electrical and telephonic service for the National Museum, twelve thousand dollars. PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM: For the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. FURNITURE AND FIXTURES OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safekeeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, thirty thousand dollars. POSTAGE: For postage-stamps and foreign postal-cards for the National Museum, one thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved March 2, 1889. Statutes XXV, pp. 952, 953.) PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING FOR THE NATIONAL MUSEUM: For printing labels and blanks for the use of the National Museum, and for the "Bulletins," and annual volumes of the "Proceedings" of the Museum, ten thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved March 2, 1889. Statutes XXV, p. 979.) FISH COMMISSION: For altering and fitting up the interior of the Armory Building, on the Mall, city of Washington, now occupied as a hatching station, for the accommodation of the offices of the United States Fish Commission, and for general repairs to said building, including the heating apparatus, and for repairing and extending the outbuildings, seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces sary, the same to be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol; and for the purpose above named the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is hereby required to move from the second and third stories of this building all properties except such as are connected with the workshops hereinafter named, under his control; and the workshops now in the second story of said building shall be transferred to and provided for in the third story thereof. And the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to ex amine and make report to Congress at its next regular session as to the practicability and cost of constructing a basement story under the National Museum Building. (Sundry civil appropriation act. Approved March 2, 1889. Statutes XXV, p. 953.) ZOOLOGICAL PARK. SEC. 4. For the establishment of a zoological park in the District of Columbia, two hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under and in accordance with the provisions following, that is to say: That in order to establish a zoological park in the District of Co lumbia, for the advancement of science and the instruction and recrea tion of the people, a commission shall be constituted, composed of three |