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Public Law 75–353

Authorizing the selection of a site and the erection of a pedestal for the Albert Gallatin statue in Washington, District of Columbia.

Approved June 15, 1937

Statutory text

JOINT RESOLUTION

Authorizing the selection of a site and the erection of a pedestal for the Albert Gallatin statue in Washington, District of Columbia.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That authority is hereby granted to any association organized within two years from date of the approval of this resolution for that purpose to erect a statue of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury from May 14, 1801, to February 9, 1814, opposite the west entrance of the Treasury Building in the city of Washington within the grounds occupied by such building, or at such other place within such grounds as may be designated by the Fine Arts Commission, subject to the approval of the Joint Committee on the Library, the model of the statue so to be

Approval required.

erected and the pedestal thereof to be first approved by the said Commission and by the Joint Committee on the Library, the same to be presented by such association to the people of the United States.

Sec. 2.

That for the preparation of the site and the erection of a

Appropriation authorized.

pedestal upon which to place the said statue, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, June 15, 1937.

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