Public Law 86–484

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to grant authority to the National Council of Negro Women to erect, on public grounds in the District of Columbia owned by the United States on the date of enactment of this joint resolution, a memorial in honor of Mary McLeod Bethune and in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. The design and location of the memorial shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. The United States shall be put to no expense in

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or by the erection of this memorial. Unless funds in an amount which the Secretary of the Interior determines sufficient to insure completion of the memorial are certified available, and the erection of the memorial is begun within five years from the date of enactment of this joint resolution, the authorization granted by this joint resolution is revoked.