1834 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
July 7, 1898—Senate. 
The bill (S. 4191) was considered as in Committee of the Whole. 
The bill had been reported from Committee on the District of 
Columbia with an amendment, to strike out all after the enacting clause 
and insert: 
That a commission to consist of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the 
President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the Engi- 
neer Commissioner of said board, is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, 
by purchase or condemnation, in the same manner as was adopted for the acquirement 
of property already embraced in the National Zoological Park under the provision 
of the act of March 2, 1889, the tract of land lying south of the National Zoological 
Park owned by the Union Benevolent Association of the District of Columbia (col- 
ored) and now occupied as a cemetery, and such parcels of ground adjoining the said 
park and between its present boundaries and Connecticut avenue extended on the 
west and the nearest road shown on the recorded highway extension plans of the first 
section on the east and south (inclusive of such road in case the same is not yet dedi- 
cated to public use) as they shall deem necessary for preserving its safety and per- 
petuating its seclusion; these properties, along with Joliet street, already purchased, 
to be made a part of the said park, for which purpose the sum of $25,000 is hereby 
appropriated, to be paid half out of the District funds and half out of the United 
States funds. The Union Benevolent. Association of the District of Columbia (col- 
ored) is hereby authorized to sell and convey any portion or all of the tract of land 
owned by them on the southern side of the Zoological Park now occupied as a cemetery. 
The amendment was agreed to. 
The bill was passed. 
July 8, 1898—House. 
Bill (S. 4191) referred to Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 
March 2, 1899—House, 
Mr. Davip H. Mercer reported S. 4191, amended. 
Referred to Committee of the Whole. 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
GRADING STREETS. 
July 1, 1898. 
Sundry civil act for 1899. 
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 parcel 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 unincum- 
bered title in fee simple to lots numbered twenty-two to twenty-nine, 
both inclusive, in block numbered five of the subdivision called Wood- 
ley Park in the District of Columbia, containing about 103,500 square 
