1808 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. ‘ 
their natural resources; and also such products of manufacture, art, and science as 
may tend to illustrate the extent and excellence of their respective industries, and 
also any other articles or things tending to illustrate and explain the history, growth, 
or development of the several States, and which may especially distinguish them 
from their sister States: Provided, That no expense growing out of the provisions of 
this act shall be chargeable to the Treasury of the United States, but that all expense 
for establishing and maintaining such buildings shall be paid by the several States 
accepting the authority hereby given. 
Referred to Committee on the District of Columbia. 
January 31, 1898— 
Mr. Francis M. CockreE tv introduced bill (S. 3481). 
(Same as H. 7336). 
Referred to Committee on the District of Columbia. 
June 13, 1898—House. 
Mr. JoHn J. JENKrNS introduced bill (H. 10672): 
Whereas the ascertained cost of the land taken for and now constituting the Rock 
Creek Park, including the expenses of acquiring said land, has been paid out of the 
$1,200,000 appropriated for the purpose by the sixth section of the act of Congress, 
entitled ‘‘An act authorizing the establishing a public park in the District of Colum- 
bia,’’ approved September 27, 1890; and 
Whereas one-half of the sum of money so expended in the acquisition of lands for 
said park and attendant expenses has been reimbursed to the Treasury of the United 
States from the revenues of the District of Columbia in the manner provided for in 
and by said sixth section of said act; and 
Whereas the occasion and need for assessing such portion of such cost and ex- 
penses upon the lands, lots, and blocks, being real estate, situate in the said District — 
of Columbia, specially benefited by reason of the location or of the location and 
improvement of said Rock Creek Park, as nearly as may be in proportion to the 
benefits resulting to said real estate, as prescribed in and by said sixth section of 
said act, has been anticipated and made nugatory by the aforesaid payment for all 
lands taken and expenses incurred in the acquisition of said park; and 
Whereas no improvement has been made of said park: Therefore, 
Be it enacted, etc., That so much and such part of the said sixth section of said act of 
Congress as authorizes and empowers the commission named in said act to assess upon 
the lands, lots, and blocks, being real estate, within the District of Columbia, sup- 
posed to be specially benefited by reason of the location or of the location and im- 
provement of said Rock Creek Park, the whole or a proportionate part of such cost 
and expenses be, and the same is hereby, repealed 
Referred to Committee on the District of Columbia. 
June 14, 1898—House. 
Mr. Joun J. JENKINS introduced bill (H. 10687): 
Whereas the cost of the land taken for the Rock Creek Park, together with the 
attendant expenses, has been satisfied and paid out of the money appropriated there- 
for by the act approved September 27, 1890, entitled ‘‘An act authorizing the estab- 
lishing of a public park in the District of Columbia,’’ whereof one-half has been reim- 
bursed to the Treasury of the United States from the revenues of the District of 
Columbia, as prescribed by the sixth section of said act, and the occasion for assessing 
as for special benefits resulting to other lands in said District from the location and 
improvement of said park does not exist at the present time: Therefore, 
Be it enacted, etc., That the commission to select the land for the Rock Creek Park _ 
be, and they are hereby, discharged of and from the duty of assessing, under said — 
