National Zoological Park shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session. (28 Stat. 384.)

This was a provision accompanying an appropriation for the construction and other expenses of the park in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1895, cited above.

A like provision, without the word "hereafter," was contained in similar appropriation acts for the two preceding years.

§ 10591. (Act Aug. 24, 1912, c. 355, § 1.) Plans, etc., for buildings and bridges in National Zoological Park.

Hereafter all plans and specifications for the construction of buildings in the National Zoological Park shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect of the District of Columbia, and all plans and specifications for bridges in said park shall be prepared under the supervision of the engineer of bridges of the District of Columbia. (37 Stat. 437.)

This was a provision accompanying an appropriation for the park in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

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§ 10592. (R. S. § 5595.) What Revised Statutes embrace. The foregoing seventy-three titles embrace the statutes of the United States general and permanent in their nature, in force on the Ist day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, as revised and consolidated by commissioners appointed under an act of Congress, and the same shall be designated and cited, as The Revised Statutes of the United States.

§ 10593. (R. S. § 5596.) Repeal of acts embraced in revision.

All acts of Congress passed prior to said first day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, any portion of which is embraced in any section of said revision, are hereby repealed, and the section applicable thereto shall be in force in lieu thereof; all parts of such acts not contained in such revision, having been repealed or superseded by subsequent acts, or not being general and permanent in their nature: Provided, That the incorporation into said revision of any general and permanent provision, taken from an act making appropriations, or from an act containing other provisions of a private, local, or temporary character, shall not repeal, or in any way affect any appropriation, or any provision of a private, local or temporary character, contained in any of said acts, but the same shall remain in force; and all acts of Congress passed prior to said last-named day no part of which are embraced in said revision, shall not be affected or changed by its enactment.

§ 10594. (R. S. § 5597.) Accrued rights reserved.

The repeal of the several acts embraced in said revision, shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before the said repeal, but all rights and liabilities under said acts shall continue, and inay be enforced in the same manner, as if said repeal had not been made; nor shall said repeal, in any manner affect the right to any office, or change the term or tenure thereof.

§ 10595. (R. S. § 5598.) Prosecutions and punishments.

All offenses committed, and all penalties or forfeitures incurred under any statute embraced in said revision prior to said repeal, may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect, as if said repeal had not been made.

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§ 10596. (R. S. § 5599.) Acts of limitation.

All acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings, or to the prosecution of offenses, or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures, embraced in said revision and covered by said repeal, shall not be affected thereby, but all suits, proceedings or prosecutions, whether civil or criminal, for causes arising, or acts done or committed prior to said repeal, may be commenced and prosecuted within the same time as if said repeal had not been made. § 10597. (R. S. § 5600.) Arrangement and classification of sections.

The arrangement and classification of the several sections of the revision have been made for the purpose of a more convenient and orderly arrangement of the same, and therefore no inference or presumption of a legislative construction is to be drawn by reason of the Title, under which any particular section is placed.

§ 10598. (R. S. § 5601.) Acts passed since Dec. 1, 1873, not affected.

The enactment of the said revision is not to affect or repeal any act of Congress passed since the 1st day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and all acts passed since that date are to have full effect as if passed after the enactment of this revision, and so far as such acts vary from, or conflict with any provision contained in said revision, they are to have effect as subsequent statutes, and as repealing any portion of the revision inconsistent therewith.