Public Law 74–64

That the Secretary

District of Columbia.

Memorial to early settlers, authorized.

of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant permission for the erection on public grounds of the United States in the city of Washington, other than those of the Capitol, the Library of Congress, and the White House, of a memorial of simple and artistic form and design to those early settlers whose land grants embrace the site of the Federal City, by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists, a corporation, one of whose objects is the erection of memorials to commemorate historic persons, sites, or events of the colonial period of this country, in the several States and the District of Columbia: Provided, That the site chosen

Proviso.

Approval of site and design.

and the design of the memorial shall have the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts, and that the United States shall be put to no expense in or by the erection of the said memorial.