Volume 53
Public Law 76–45
Authorizing the Library of Congress to acquire by purchase, or otherwise, the whole, or any part, of the papers of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney, including therewith a group of documents relating to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, now in the possession of Harry Stone, of New York City.
Approved April 6, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
Authorizing the Library of Congress to acquire by purchase, or otherwise, the whole, or any part, of the papers of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney, including therewith a group of documents relating to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, now in the possession of Harry Stone, of New York City.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Library of Congress is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase, or otherwise, the whole, or any part, of the papers of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney, including therewith a group of documents relating to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, now in the possession of Harry Stone, of 24 East Fifty-eighth Street, New
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p.627.
York, New York, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Library of Congress for that purpose not to exceed the sum of $37,500.
Approved, April 6, 1939.