Public Law 46–133

That a joint select committee, consisting of three Senators and three Members of the House of Representatives, shall have power to employ, as soon as may be, at the expense of the United States, three persons of suitable skill and attainments, who, or a majority of whom, shall, with the approval of said committee, carefully examine and consider what practicable and beneficial changes can be made in and of the Capitol building in the District of Columbia, for the better accommodation of the Houses of Congress and of the Congressional Library, having in view especially the need of better ventilation, light, and exposure to the open air of the legislative balls, and the convenience of communication between them, and between them and the Library, and the need of greater space and better arrangement thereof for the Library. They shall, if they find any mode or modes of accomplishing the ends aforesaid practicable and beneficial, cause proper plans, designs, and estimates of cost to be made thereof, and submit the same to said committee, which shall report the same

Report.

to Congress at the earliest practicable time. And said committee shall in any case make a full report on the subject, and especially whether such mode of providing for the Library is preferable to the erection of a separate building for that purpose.

Sec. 2.

That said joint select committee is also authorized and directed

Site.

at the same time to examine the question of a site outside the Capitol for the Library' of Congress, and report to Congress what locations would be most suitable for the Library and afford the highest advantages for its future growth and permanent accommodation, and also in the case of each site the probable cost of the same and of the building.

Sec. 3.

The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall

Appropriation.

be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes named in this act, which shall be paid on vouchers approved by said committee.