Volume 60
Public Law 79–920
To provide for the transfer of the painting “First Fight of Ironclads, Monitor and Merrimac”, now stored in the United States Capitol Building, to the custody of the United States Naval Academy.
Approved August 8, 1946
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To provide for the transfer of the painting “First Fight of Ironclads, Monitor and Merrimac”, now stored in the United States Capitol Building, to the custody of the United States Naval Academy.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the painting “First Fight of Ironclads, Monitor and Merrimac”, by William Formby Halsall, now stored in the United States Capitol Building, be, and the same is hereby, transferred to the permanent custody of the United States Naval Academy. The removal and transport of this painting from the Capitol to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, shall be effected at the expense of said Academy, and the Architect of the Capitol shall act for the Joint Committee on the Library in carrying out the provisions of this joint resolution.
Approved August 8, 1946.