Volume 63 · 891
Public Law 81–714
Authorizing the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion to preserve or dispose of material removed from the Executive Mansion during the period of renovation.
Approved October 25, 1949
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Authorizing the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion to preserve or dispose of material removed from the Executive Mansion during the period of renovation.
Whereas,
Ante, p. 47.
under the provisions of section 4 (b) of Public Law 40, Eighty-first Congress, first session, the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion is required to recommend to the Congress and to the President, at the earliest possible date, a plan for (1) the preservation of any material removed from the Executive Mansion which is of permanent historical importance, and (2) the sale, donation, destruction, or other disposition of the remainder of such material in the manner most consistent with its symbolical value and without commercial exploitation; and
Whereas it is necessary to commence work on the renovation of the Executive Mansion without delay; and
Whereas renovation work cannot be commenced until the disposition of the various categories of the materials to be removed from the building has been determined and specified; and
Whereas time before the adjournment of the present Congress will not permit the development of a complete and detailed plan for the disposal of all of the categories of the material in the manner most consistent with its symbolical value and without commercial exploitation; and
Whereas there is no suitable storage space of adequate capacity available for the storage of this material pending the reconvening of the present Congress for its second session: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Commission on
Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion.
Renovation of the Executive Mansion is hereby empowered, with the approval of the President, to determine the details of and to execute
Preservation, etc., of materials.
a suitable plan for the preservation or other appropriate disposition of all the materials removed from the Executive Mansion in connection with the renovation thereof and consistent with their symbolical value and without commercial exploitation: Provided, That report shall
Report to Congress.
be made to the Congress of action taken under this authority on January 3, 1950, and every six months thereafter until the final report is submitted: Provided further, That the Commission is hereby authorized
Use of funds.
and empowered to use for this purpose any of the funds appropriated for the renovation and modernization of the Executive Mansion under Public Law 119, Eighty-first Congress, first session, approved
Ante, p. 235.
June 23, 1949.
Approved October 25, 1949.