Volume 52
Public Law 75–470
To create a commission to procure a design for a flag for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Approved June 16, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To create a commission to procure a design for a flag for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
District of Columbia, flag.
Commission created to procure design for.
of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the president of the Board of Commissioners or the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, created a commission to procure a design for a distinctive flag for the District of Columbia, the seat of the Capital of the Nation: Provided, That in the selection of such design the commission
Proviso.
Advice of Commission of Fine Arts.
hereby created shall have the advice of the Commission of Fine Arts.
Approved, June 16, 1938.