Chapter 313. Creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and defining its purposes and powers
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Chap. 313: Creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and defining its purposes and powers. Chapter 315 45 Stat. 1300 1929-02-25 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 1300 Chapter 315.— An Act Creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and defining its purposes and powers.
February 25, 1929.[[S. 3848](/us/bill/70/s/3848).][[Public, No. 805](/us/pl/70/805).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission.Creation and composition of. That a commission is hereby created and established, to be known as the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission (hereafter referred to as the commission), to consist of twelve members, who shall be appointed by the President.
The members shall serve at the pleasure of the President, who shall fill all vacancies that from time to time occur. Allowance only for expenses.The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, except that their actual expenses in connection with the work of the commission may be paid from any funds appropriated for the purposes of this Act or acquired by other means hereafter *Proviso*.Secretary, etc.authorized: *Provided,* That the secretary may be paid such salary for his services as may be determined by the commission.
The commission is also authorized to pay such actual and necessary expenses as the secretary may incur in the performance of his duties. Such salary and expenses shall be paid by the treasurer of the commission upon the order of the secretary thereof and then only when approved and countersigned by the chairman of the executive committee. Sec. 2. Organization.The commission when appointed shall organize by electing a chairman, a vice chairman, a secretary, *Proviso*.Treasurer.and a treasurer: *Provided, *That a treasurer may be selected outside of the commission and may be a bank or trust company.
Such treasurer shall execute a bond so conditioned and in such amount as shall insure the protection of funds coming into his possession. Executive committee.The commission may also create from its own membership an executive committee of five, which shall exercise such powers and functions within the purview of this Act as may be authorized by the commission. Sec. 3. Completion of Memorial.The purpose of the commission is to complete the carving of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial to consist of heroic figures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, together with an entablature upon which there shall be cut a suitable inscription to be indited by Calvin Coolidge, and to landscape the contiguous grounds and construct the entrances thereto.
Such memorial is to be constructed according to designs and models by Gutzon Borglum, now owned or contracted for by the Mount Harney Memorial Association of South Dakota. No charge shall ever be made for admission to the memorial grounds or for viewing the memorial. Sec. 4. Authority.The commission is authorized—
(a)Receive all property etc., of Mount Harney Memorial Association.To receive and take over all property, contracts, rights, and moneys now in the hands of and possessed by the Mount Harney Memorial Association, including memoranda, records, sketches, models, and the incompleted figures on Mount Rushmore.
(b)Receive and disburse funds.To receive funds and pledges to cover the expense of finishing such memorial, and to pay out the same upon properly receipted vouchers to persons entitled.
(c)Employ artists, sculptors, etc.To employ the services of such artists, sculptors, landscape architects, and others as it shall determine to be necessary to complete said memorial, including the landscaping of the grounds and construction of the entrances thereto.
(d)Other powers.To exercise such powers and functions as are necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of this Act. Sec. 5. Federal contribution limited.*Post*, p. 1627.That not more than one-half of the cost of such memorial and landscaping shall be borne by the United States, and not to exceed $250,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the purpose. Upon requisition of the executive committee herein provided 1301for, the proportionate share of the United States shall be advancedAdvance to treasurer from funds appropriated. the treasurer of said commission from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any available appropriation, and in sufficient amounts to match the funds advanced from other sources to said commission, whether such funds are in the hands of its treasurer or have already been expended upon such memorial by the commission or by its predecessor, the Mount Harney Memorial Association: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Condition.That the Secretary of the Treasury shall first be satisfied that the funds received from sources other than the United States are actually available in the hands of the treasurer of the commission or have been properly expended in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Sec. 6. That such commission, on or before the 1st day of DecemberReport to Congress. of each year, shall transmit to Congress a report of its activities and proceedings for the preceding year, including a full and complete statement of its receipts and expenditures. Approved, February 25, 1929.
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