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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · June 9, 1917 · Chapter 25

Chapter 25.

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CHAP. 25.— Joint Resolution Authorizing the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to permit the Secretary of War to erect temporary buildings in the Smithsonian Grounds. June 9, 1917. [[H. J. Res. 94](/us/bill/65/hjres/94).] [[Pub. Res., No. 5](/us/bill/65/pubres/5).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Smithsonian Institution.Temporary structures for Army allowed in grounds of. That authority be, and is hereby, given to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to grant permission, under such conditions and restrictions as they may deem necessary, to the Secretary of War to erect for the use of the War Department a temporary structure or structures in the *Proviso*.Removal, etc., within three years.Smithsonian Grounds in the city of Washington: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall have such building or buildings removed from the said grounds and the site or sites thereof placed in as good condition as at present within three years from the date of the approval of this resolution.
Approved, June 9, 1917.
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