Volume 80
Public Law 89–503
To authorize the Attorney General to transfer to the Smithsonian Institution title to certain objects of art.
Approved July 18, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Attorney General to transfer to the Smithsonian Institution title to certain objects of art.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Attorney
Smithsonian Institution.
Transfer of certain art objects.
General is authorized and directed to transfer to the Smithsonian Institution title to the jade, stone, and bronze objects of art consisting of forty-four pieces which were vested in or transferred to the Attorney General pursuant to the provisions of vesting order 18344, dated August 21, 1951.
Sec. 2.
After the transfer of title by the Attorney General, the
Disposition.
Smithsonian Institution shall have complete discretion to retain, exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of the objects of art referred to in section 1 in promotion of the purposes for which that Institution was founded.
Approved July 18, 1966.