Chapter 469. For the preparation of plans or designs for a memorial or statue of General Ulysses S
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CHAP. 469.— An Act For the preparation of plans or designs for a memorial or statue of General Ulysses S. Grant on ground belonging to the United States Government in the city of Washington, District of Columbia. February 23, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Statue of Gen. U. S. Grant. Selection of a site authorized. That the president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, and the Secretary of War be, and they are hereby, created a commission to select a site and secure plans and designs for a statue or memorial of General Ulysses S.
Grant, late President of the United States and General of the armies thereof, said statue not to cost in excess of the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. That said commission is authorized to select any unoccupiedUse of Government reservation. square or reservation belonging to the Government, or part thereof, in the District of Columbia, except the grounds of the Capitol and Library of Congress, on which to erect the said statue. Sec. 3. That the said commission is authorized and required toPlans, etc. advertise for plans, specifications, and models for the base, pedestal, and statue provided for in section one, and may pay to competing artists for the same and for expenses incident to making such selection, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. one of which plans, specifications, or models shall, if deemed sufficiently meritorious by the commission, be selected, or the commission may select any part of any of the plans, specifications, or models that it may elect and that it can use.
Sec. 4. That as soon as practicable after the selection authorized byReport. section three is made, said commission shall report their action to the Congress of the United States. Approved, February 23, 1901.