Public Law 75–147

That the Secretary of the

Guglielmo Marconi memorial.

Erection of, in District of Columbia, authorized.

Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant permission to The Marconi Memorial Foundation, Inc., for the erection on public grounds of the United States in the District of Columbia, other than those of the Capitol, the Library of Congress, and the White House, of a memorial of simple and artistic form to the late Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of an apparatus for wireless telegraphy, by the American people: Provided, That the site chosen and the

Provisos.

Approval of site and design.

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: Provided further, That unless funds, which in the estimation of the Secretary of the

Financial, etc., conditions.

Interior are sufficient to insure the completion of the memorial, are certified available, and the erection of this memorial begun within five years from and after the passage of this legislation, the authorization hereby granted is revoked.