Volume 50
Public Law 75–13
To create the Capital Auditorium Commission.
Approved February 20, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To create the Capital Auditorium Commission.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there is hereby created a Commission to consist of the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives, the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Senate, and the Secretary of the Interior, said Commission
Authority to investigate sites.
to be known as the Capital Auditorium Commission. Said Commission shall be authorized to investigate as to desirable sites for an auditorium to be constructed in the city of Washington with sufficient capacity, in the opinion of the Commission, to meet the requirements of public convenience and necessity.
Ascertainment of cost of site and construction thereon.
The Commission is authorized to ascertain the approximate cost of a suitable site and of the erection of an auditorium thereon and to formulate plans, and to recommend how that cost shall be borne and how the auditorium, when constructed, shall be controlled and
Report to Congress.
supervised. The Commission shall report to the Congress its plans and recommendations for legislation to carry out the same at any time during the present session of the Congress.
Approved, February 20, 1937.