Volume 36 · 290
Public Law 61–141
To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to accept donations of money and land for the establishment of a branch library in the District of Columbia, to establish a commission to supervise the erection of a branch library building in said District, and to provide for the suitable maintenance of said branch.
Approved April 4, 1910
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to accept donations of money and land for the establishment of a branch library in the District of Columbia, to establish a commission to supervise the erection of a branch library building in said District, and to provide for the suitable maintenance of said branch.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to accept from Andrew Carnegie a donation not less than thirty thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting a suitable branch library building in Takoma Park, subject to the approval of the commissioners and the public library trustees, and to accept conveyance of unencumbered land considered suitable by the said commissioners and library trustees
Building commission.
as a site for a branch library for Takoma Park. And authority is hereby conferred upon a commission, to consist of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the chairman of the committee on branch libraries of the library trustees, and the librarian of the public library of the District of Columbia, to supervise the erection of said branch
Provisos.
Opening deferred.
library building: Provided, That such branch library building shall not be opened for public use until Congress shall hereafter provide for the necessary expenses of maintaining said branch library when the same shall be completed and ready for such use: And provided
Expenses.
further, That the appropriation for such expenses shall not exceed in any one year the sum of ten per centum of the total cost of such building.
Approved, April 4, 1910.