Chapter 1020. To provide certain souvenir medallions for the benefit of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States
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CHAP. 1020.— An Act To provide certain souvenir medallions for the benefit of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States. March 3, 1901. [[Public, No. 170](/us/pl/57/170).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That for the purpose of aidingDistrict of Columbia.Souvenir medallion for Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association. in the erection at the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of an appropriate memorial to the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to have prepared in the United States mint at Philadelphia four dies for medallions of such design and size as may be designated by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States and approved by him; and he shall have made and struck from theseLimit. dies such number of medallions out of silver or bronze, not to exceed 1228one hundred and fifty thousand, as may be requested by the said memorial association, the net proceeds from the sale of the said pro posed medallions to be applied to the fund for the erection of the proposed memorial under the auspices of the said memorial association.
Sec. 2. Material. That the material from which the said proposed medallions are to be made shall be furnished to the director of the United States mint at Philadelphia at the expense of the said Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States, a body corporate under the laws governing the District of Columbia. Approved, March 3, 1901.