Chapter 42.
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CHAP. 42.— AN ACT To provide a commission to secure plans and designs for a monument or memorial to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. February 9, 1911.[[S. 9149](/us/bill/36/s/9149).][[Public, No. 346](/us/bill/36/pl/346).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Lincoln Memorial Commission created.That William H. Taft, Shelby M. Cullom, Joseph G. Cannon, George Peabody Wetmore, Samuel Walker McCallComposition, duties, etc., Hernando D.
Money, and Champ Clark are hereby created a commission, to be known as the Lincoln Memorial Commission, to procure and determine upon a location, plan, and design for a monument or memorial in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, subject to the approval of Congress. Sec.2.Employment of artists, etc.That in the discharge of its duties hereunder said commission is authorized to employ the services of such artists, sculptors, architects, and others as it shall determine to be necessary, and to avail itself Commission of Fine Arts.of the services or advice of the Commission of Fine Arts, created by the Act approved May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten.*Ante,* p. 371.
Sec.3.Selection of site.That the construction of the monument or memorial, herein and hereby authorized, shall be upon such site as shall be determined by the commission herein created, and approved by Congress, and said construction Construction, etc.shall be entered upon as speedily as practicable after the plan and design therefor is determined upon and approved by Congress, and shall be prosecuted to completion, under the direction of said commission and the supervision of the Secretary of War, under a contract Contracts.or contracts hereby authorized to be entered into by said Secretary in a total sum not exceeding two million dollars.Cost.
Sec.4.That vacancies occurring in the membership of the commission shall be tilled by appointment by the President of the United States.Filling vacancies. Sec.5.That to defray the necessary expenses of the commission herein created and the cost of procuring plans or designs for a memorial or monument, as herein provided, there is hereby appropriatedAppropriation.the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Sec.6.That said commission shall annually submit Annual estimates.to Congress an estimate of the amount of money necessary to be expended each year to carry on the work herein authorized.
Sec.7.That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent Inconsistent laws repealed.herewith are hereby repealed.Vol. 32, p. 486. Approved, February 9, 1911.