Chapter 313. To purchase a painting of the several ships of the United States Navy in 1891 and entitled “Peace.”March 3, 1927.[[H
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CHAP. 313.— An Act To purchase a painting of the several ships of the United States Navy in 1891 and entitled “Peace.”March 3, 1927.[[H. R. 3791](/us/bill/69/hr/3791).][[Public, No. 716](/us/pl/69/716).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,“Peace,” Oil painting.Joint Committee on the Library authorized to purchase, now in the Capitol. That the Joint Committee on the Library of the House of Representatives and Senate be, and is hereby, authorized to purchase from the owners, the heirs of its painter/Waiter L.
Dean, the oil painting known as 1358“Peace ” (which was loaned to the Government twenty-live years ago and since that time has hung in the Capitol and in the room of the Committee on Naval Affairs) for the sum of $5,000, which sum is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay said owners for said painting upon the passage and approval of this Act. Approved, March 3, 1927.