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Volume 49 · 962

Public Law 74–806

To provide additional funds for the completion of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes.

Approved August 29, 1935

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide additional funds for the completion of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not to exceed the sum of $200,000, in addition to the amount previously authorized, for the purpose of defraying the cost of completing the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, in the State of South Dakota, including landscaping of the contiguous grounds thereof, constructing the entrances thereto, and constructing a suitable museum room in connection therewith.

Sec. 2.

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized to enter into contract for the execution and completion of the work and to fix the compensations to be paid to artists, sculptors, landscape architects, and others, who may be employed by the Mount

Vol. 45, p. 1300; Vol. 48, p. 1223.

Rushmore National Memorial Commission, in the completion of the said Mount Rushmore National Memorial pursuant to the provisions of section 3 of Public Law Numbered 805, Seventieth Congress, approved February 25, 1929, as amended by section 1 of Public Law Numbered 471, Seventy-third Congress, approved June 26, 1934.

Approved, August 29, 1935.

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