Chapter CXI. *to incorporate the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. CXI.— An Act *to incorporate the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and for other Purposes*. May 24, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Trustees of Corcoran Gallery of Art incorporated. That James M. Carlisle, James C. Hall, George W. Riggs, Anthony Hyde, James G. Berret, James C. Kennedy, Henry D. Cooke, and James C. McGuire, of the city of Washington, and of Georgetown, District of Columbia, and William T.
Walters, of the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, created and constituted a body politic and corporate in law, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded,Powers of corporation. have perpetual succession, and shall and may take, hold, manage, and dispose of, at all times, real and personal estate, and shall and may do and perform all other acts and things necessary or appropriate for the execution of the trusts created and conferred on them in and by a certain deed from William W.
Corcoran, to them, the said parties hereinbefore named, Which is dated the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and was recorded on the eighteenth of the same month in liber D, number eight, folio two hundred and ninety-four, et sequitur, one of the land records of Washington county, District of Columbia, to which reference is hereby made for greater certainty; the intent of this charter ofIntent of charter. incorporation being that the same shall be in execution of the trusts in the said deed declared and set forth, and not to any other intent or purpose whatever.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of War, thePay for the use of certain ground and buildings to he determined and the amount paid to the corporation. Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of State be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain and settle, upon principles of justice, a fair and just compensation for the use of the ground and buildings described in the before-mentioned deed, while the same were occupied by the United States for the public service; and that the sum so ascertained and settled by them, or a majority of them, shall, upon their certificate and award thereof, be paid to the corporation hereinbefore created, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That any tax which may be claimedTax remitted. or due to the United States, by reason of the transfer of the property above mentioned, or the execution and delivery of the said deed from the said William W. Corcoran to the above-named trustees, be, and the same is hereby, remitted and released. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That the aforesaid buildings andBuildings, &c. exempt from taxes. grounds connected therewith, together with all the works of art that may be contained therein, shall be free from all taxes and assessments by the municipal authorities, or by the United States, so long as the same shall be held and used for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.
Approved, May 24, 1870.