Chapter 20. To provide for enlarging and relocating the United States Botanic Garden, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 20.— An Act To provide for enlarging and relocating the United States Botanic Garden, and for other purposes.January 5, 1927.[[S. 4153](/us/bill/69/s/4153).][[Public, No. 535](/us/pl/69/535).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Botanic Garden, D. C.*Post*, p. 1262. That for the purpose of enlarging and relocating the United States Botanic Garden, the Joint Committee on the Library is authorized and directed—
(1)To acquire on behalf of the United States, by purchase, condemnation,Joint Committee on the Library authorized to acquire land for enlarging, etc.Vol. 26, p. 412. or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, and for other purposes,” approved August 30, 1890, as amended, all of the privately owned land, buildings, and other structures, in square numbered 676 and square numbered 578, in theSquares designated. District of Columbia, as such squares appear on the records in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia, as of the date of the passage of this Act. Upon the acquisition of such land, buildings,Joint Committee to have jurisdiction over acquired land, etc. and structures, all of the land contained in square numbered 576 and square numbered 578 shall become a part of the United States 932Botanic Garden and shall be under the jurisdiction and control of the Joint Committee on the Library.
(2)Removal of present buildings. To provide for the removal of such buildings and other structures now located upon the squares specified in paragraph
(1)as it deems necessary.
(3)Reerection of Bartholdi Fountain. To provide for the removal of the Bartholdi Fountain and its basin and equipment from its present site and the reerection of the same upon a suitable location upon one of the squares specified in paragraph (1).
(4)Plans, etc., for new buildings to be prepared, etc. To investigate the cost of the construction of new conservatories and other necessary buildings for the United States Botanic Garden, to procure preliminary plans and estimates by contract or otherwise for such conservatories and buildings, and to report thereon to Congress before the end of the second regular session Assistance of governmental agencies, etc.of the Seventieth Congress. In making such investigation and report the Joint Committee on the Library is hereby authorized to procure advice and assistance from any existing governmental agency, including the services of engineers, surveyors, draftsmen, architects, Balance available.and other technical personnel in the executive departments and Vol. 43, pp. 729, 1297.independent establishments of the Government. For the purpose of this paragraph the unexpended balance of the appropriations made pursuant to the authority contained in Public Resolution Numbered 42, approved January 7, 1925, is hereby made available. Sec. 2. Sum authorized for purchase, etc. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $820,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Joint Committee on the Library to carry out the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2), and
(3)of section 1 of this Act. Approved, January 5, 1927.