Volume 51
Public Law 75–1
Granting the consent of Congress for the loan of certain portraits now located in the Capitol to the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission for exhibition in the Corcoran Art Gallery.
Approved November 19, 1937
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Granting the consent of Congress for the loan of certain portraits now located in the Capitol to the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission for exhibition in the Corcoran Art Gallery.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Architect of the
U. S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.
Loan of certain portraits to, for exhibition purposes.
Capitol be, and he is hereby, authorized to loan to the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission the portraits of Thomas Jefferson by Sully; George Washington by Gilbert Stuart; Gunning Bedford, Junior, by Peale and Henry Lawrence by Copley, now located in the Capitol Building, for exhibition in the Corcoran Art Gallery between the dates of November 27, 1937, and February 1, 1938, in connection with the celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
The said architect is directed to have these portraits returned to
Return.
the Capitol immediately after the conclusion of the exhibition above referred to.
Approved, November 19, 1937.