Chapter 23. Providing for a Presidents’ plaza and memorial in the city of Nashville, State of Tennessee, to Andrew Jackson, James K
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Chap. 23: Providing for a Presidents’ plaza and memorial in the city of Nashville, State of Tennessee, to Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson, former Presidents of the United States. 1928-12-12 23 Chapter 45 Stat. 1020 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 23.— An Act Providing for a Presidents’ plaza and memorial in the city of Nashville, State of Tennessee, to Andrew Jackson, James K.
Polk and Andrew Johnson, former Presidents of the United States. December 12, 1928.[[S. 3171](/us/bill/70/s/3171).][[Public, No. 632](/us/pl/70/632).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Nashville, Tenn.Sum authorized for contribution to Presidents’ Plaza, as memorial in, of former Presidents Jackson, Polk, and Johnson. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $300,000 as a contribution on the part of the United States to the establishment of a Presidents’ plaza in the city of Nashville, State of Tennessee, and for the erection thereon of a proper memorial in honor and to the memory of Andrew Jackson, James K.
Polk, and Andrew Johnson, former Presidents of the United States. Sec. 2. Nashville Presidents’ Plaza Commission established. There is hereby established a commission, to be known as the Nashville Presidents’ Plaza Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission), and to be composed of fifteen commissioners, as Composition.follows: Three persons to be appointed by the President of the United States; three Senators by the President of the Senate; three Members of the House of Representatives by the Speaker of the House; the Governor of the State of Tennessee; the judge of the county court of Davidson County, Tennessee; the mayor of the city of Nashville, Tennessee; and three persons to be appointed by the Governor of the State of Tennessee.
The commissioners shall serve without compensation, select a chairman from among their number, and appoint a secretary at such salary as the commission may fix. Sec. 3. Contribution subject to equal amount from State, etc. No part of the contribution on the part of the United States shall be appropriated until there has been raised within the State of Tennessee by private subscription and/or by public appropriation an additional sum of $300,000 as a contribution to the payment1021of cost of said memorial, and plans and specifications for the locationApproval of design. and design of said memorial shall have been approved by the Joint Committee on the Library, with the advice of the National Commission of Fine Arts.
Approved, December 12, 1928.
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