Chapter 350. To create a commission to be known as the Commission for the enlarging of the Capitol Grounds, and for other purposes
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Chap. 350: To create a commission to be known as the Commission for the enlarging of the Capitol Grounds, and for other purposes. Chapter 350 45 Stat. 420 1928-04-11 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 1 public Chapter 350.— An Act To create a commission to be known as the Commission for the enlarging of the Capitol Grounds, and for other purposes.
April 11, 1928.[[S. 2301](/us/bill/70/s/2301).][[Public, No. 260](/us/pl/70/260).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Capitol Grounds, D. C.Commission for enlarging, created.Composition.*Post*, p. 1694. That the Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, the Chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, the chairman and ranking minority member of the House Committee 421 on Public Buildings and Grounds, the minority leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the House of Representatives and the Architect of the Capitol, are hereby created a commission to be known as the Commission for the Enlarging of the Capitol Grounds.
Authorized to consider plans and estimates for development of park area, etc. The commission is authorized to consider plans and estimates for the creation of a park area to enlarge the Capitol Grounds, including the plans showing the original scheme for the development of this area, and the alternative scheme for the development of this and added areas, and to recommend to the Congress such original and alternative plans or schemes with estimates of costs therefor, together with recommendations for the purchase of such other areas as may be considered necessary to give to the plans for the enlargement of the Capitol Grounds a suitable landscape treatment for the Capitol Building in relation to the landscape treatment with the proposed arrangement of the Mall area.
Sec. 2. Continuation to next Congress, if final report be not submitted before expiration of 70th Congress. If the Commission is unable to submit a final report before the expiration of the Seventieth Congress, those Members of the House of Representatives who are members of the Commission at the date of expiration of such Congress, if Members-elect to the succeeding Congress, shall continue as members of such commission until their successors are determined by the organization of the House of Representatives of the Seventy-first Congress.
Approved, April 11, 1928.
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