Ohio Centennial Company to purchase the same at an appraised value, to be ascertained in such manner as the President and Secretary of the Treasury may determine; and whatever sum may be so realized shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States.

SEC. 3. That for the purpose of paying the expenses of the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, installation, care, and return of said Government exhibit, and for the employment of proper persons as officers and assistants by the board of management created by this Act and for their expenses, and for the maintenance of the building hereinbefore provided for, and for other contingent expenses incidental to the Government exhibit, to be approved by the chairman of the board of management, or, in the event of his absence or disability, by such other officer as the board may designate, upon itemized accounts and vouchers, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the board of management hereinbefore created, of which not exceeding the sum of $10,000 shall be expended for clerical service: Provided, That no liability against the Government shall be incurred and no expenditure of money under this act shall be made until the officers of said exposition shall have furnished the Secretary of the Treasury proofs to his satisfaction that there has been obtained by said exposition corporation subscriptions of stock in good faith, contributions, donations, or appropriations from all sources for the purpose of said exposition, a sum aggregating not less than $500,000, nor until the State of Ohio shall by legislative enactment have appropriated a sum of money equal to that herein appropriated.

SEC. 4. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition upon which there shall be a tariff or customs duty shall be admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time during the exhibition to sell, for delivery at the close of the exposition, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That all such articles, when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation, and all penalties prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal: And provided further, That all necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this section, including salaries of customs officials in charge of imported articles, shall be paid

to the Treasury of the United States by the Ohio Centennial Company, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

SEC. 5. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions commemorative of said Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory Exposition, and of the awards to be made to exhibitors thereat, be prepared at some mint in the United States for the board of directors thereof, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of the coinage act of 1893, upon the payment by the Ohio Centennial Company of a sum not less than the cost thereof; and all the provisions, whether penal or otherwise, of said coinage act against the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States shall apply to the medal struck and issued under this act.

SEC. 6. That the United States shall in no manner and under no circumstances be liable for any bond, debt, contract, expenditure, expense, or liability of any kind whatever of the said Ohio Centennial Company, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or incident to or growing out of said exposition, nor for any amount whatever in excess of the $500,000 herein authorized; and the heads of the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, the Commission of Fish and Fisheries, the Department of Labor, and the Bureau of American Republics, and the board of management herein authorized, their officers, agents, servants, or employees, shall in no manner and under no circumstances expend or create any liability of any kind for any sum in excess of the appropriations herein made, or create any deficiency.

SEC. 7. That at the close of the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory Exposition the exhibits of the United States Government shall be returned to the several departments or bureaus from which they were received; and such collections as may be acquired by the board by purchase, preparation, gift, or otherwise, illustrating the natural resources, industries, customs, and commerce of the other American Republics shall be placed for permanent preservation in the United States National Museum.

SEC. 8. That the appropriation herein made, of $500,000 in all, shall take effect and become available immediately upon the proof being made to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the conditions prescribed in section three of this act have been complied with. (Stat., XXX, 1346.)

July 19, 1897-House.

OWEN STATUE.

Mr. J. A. HEMENWAY introduced bill (H. 3901) for the erection of a statue of the late Robert Dale Owen, of Indiana, to be placed in the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution.

Referred to Committee on the Library.

INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE.

December 6, 1897-House.

Estimates for 1899.

State Department: For the purpose of carrying out on the part of the United States the recommendation of the International Conference on a Catalogue of Scientific Literature, held in London in July, 1896, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the expense of clerk hire and the other expenses incident to the work of cataloguing the scientific publications of the United States, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. NOTE (from letter of the Secretary of State, JOHN SHERMAN).-I have submitted under this head an item appropriating $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of carrying out on the part of the United States the recommendation of the International Conference on a Catalogue of Scientific Literature and for the expense of clerk hire and the other expenses incident to the work of cataloguing the scientific publications of the United States, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The importance and necessity of this appropriation are fully shown by the letter of September 16, 1897, from the Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, House Doc. No. 105, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, and the report upon the conference by Dr. Cyrus Adler, which I submit as annexes to this letter.

December 5, 1898-House.

Estimates for 1900.

State Department: For the purpose of carrying out on the part of the United States the recommendation of the International Conference on a Catalogue of Scientific Literature, held in London, in July, 1896, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the expense of clerk hire and the other expenses incident to the work of cataloguing the scientific publications of the United States, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Note (from letter of the Secretary of State, JOHN HAY).-I have submitted an item of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of carrying out on the part of the United States the recommendation of the International Conference on a Catalogue of Scientific Literature, and for the expense of clerk hire and the other expenses incident to the work of cataloguing the scientific publications of the United States, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The importance and necessity of this appropriation are fully shown by the letter of September 16, 1897, from the acting secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (House Doc. No. 105, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session), and the report upon the conference by Dr. Cyrus Adler, which I submit as annexes to this letter. The preparation of the catalogue is to begin on January 1, 1900, and if this Government is to participate therein it will be necessary that appropriate action to that end be taken by Congress at its forthcoming session. July 7, 1898.

Deficiency act for 1898, etc.

For expenses of a delegate to the International Conference on a Catalogue of Scientific Literature to be held at London during the present

year, not exceeding $500.

(Stat., XXX, 653.)

January 25, 1899-House.

Mr. SAMUEL W. MCCALL presented petition of the American Library Association urging Congress to appropriate $10,000 to be expended under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution in preparing the Catalogue of American Scientific Literature for the coming year, in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of State. Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

January 28, 1899-House.

Mr. SAMUEL W. MCCALL presented petition of the trustees of the public library of the city of Boston recommending an appropriation to be placed at the disposal of the Smithsonian Institution to enable that Institution to render necessary service in connection with the Royal Society index of scientific publications.

Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

February 9, 1899-House.

Mr. JAMES R. MANN presented resolution of the board of directors of the John Crerar Library, Chicago, Illinois, favoring an appropriation for an international catalogue of scientific literature.

Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

Mr. H. S. BOUTELL, of Illinois, presented resolution of board of directors of the John Crerar Library, Chicago, Illinois, for an international catalogue of scientific literature.

Referred to Committee on the Library.

January 27, 1898-House.

ROCK CREEK PARK.

Mr. ALFRED C. HARMER introduced bill (H. 7336):

Whereas it is considered desirable that Congress shall authorize the several States of the Union to construct within the limits of Rock Creek Park houses known as exhibition buildings, in which each State for itself may keep on constant exhibition any and all articles or things connected with its natural or industrial resources or evidencing its social, scientific, or artistic progress and development; and

Whereas the extent of such park, containing, as it does, about 1,800 acres of land, is sufficiently great to justify the appropriation of a part of it to purposes so useful and beneficial as a perpetual exhibition at the nation's capital of the natural and industrial resources which distinctively mark the growth and development of the several States which comprise the Union; and

Whereas it is believed that such use will greatly add to the interest and enjoyment of the park without in any conceivable manner lessening its attractions as a resort for health, recreation, or pleasure: Therefore,

Be it enacted, etc., That the Rock Creek Park Commissioners, with the consent and approval of the President of the United States, are hereby authorized, on the application of the governor of any one of the States of the Union, to set aside, by properly designated metes and bounds, within said park, a lot or tract of ground, not less than one acre nor more than six acres, to enable such State to construct the necessary building or buildings within which to arrange the exhibits herein contemplated.

In these buildings shall be deposited and kept, under the custody and care of agents and officials of the States, respectively, but subject in all respects to the general jurisdiction and police control of the United States, such specimens of woods, minerals, marbles, stones, grains, and fruits, and other articles as distinctively mark

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. COCKRELL introduced bill (S. 3481). (Same as H. 7336).

Referred to Committee on the District of Columbia. June 13, 1898-House.

Mr. JOHN J. JENKINS 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 Columbia," 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 expenges 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, supposed to be specially benefited by reason of the location or of the location and improvement 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. JOHN 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 therefor by the act approved September 27, 1890, entitled “An act authorizing the establishing of a public park in the District of Columbia," whereof one-half has been reimbursed 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