Chapter 44. To provide for the submission to the Congress of preliminary plans and estimates of costs for the construction of a building for the Supreme Court of the United States
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Chap. 44: To provide for the submission to the Congress of preliminary plans and estimates of costs for the construction of a building for the Supreme Court of the United States. 1928-12-21 44 Chapter 45 Stat. 1066 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 44.— An Act To provide for the submission to the Congress of preliminary plans and estimates of costs for the construction of a building for the Supreme Court of the United States.
December 21, 1928.[[H. R. 13665](/us/bill/70/hr/13665).][[Public, No. 644](/us/pl/70/644).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* United States Supreme Court Building Commission. That there is hereby created a commission to be known as the “United States Supreme Court Building Commission” and to be composed of the Chief Justice1067of the United States, an associate justice of the United States to beCreation and composition of. designated by the Supreme Court of the United States, the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Senate, the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol.
Notwithstanding the expiration of a Congress, any Representative who is a member of the commission, if reelected, shall continue to serve thereon until a successor is selected by the House of Representatives. The Architect of the Capitol shall serve as executive officerExecutive officer. of the commission and shall perform such services under this Act as the commission may direct. Sec. 2. The commission is authorized to procure, by contract orCommission to procure preliminary plans, estimates, etc., for building for the Supreme Court, on acquired site. otherwise, preliminary plans and estimates of costs for the construction, and the furnishing and equipping, of a suitable building (including approaches, connections with the Capitol power plant, and architectural landscape treatment of the grounds), for the accommodationVol. 44, pp. 631, 1254. and exclusive use of the Supreme Court of the United States; such building to be erected upon the site heretofore acquired for that purpose, and such building to be so situated, and the exterior thereof to be of such type of architecture and material, as to harmonize with the present buildings of the Capitol group.
The amount to beLimit of expense. expended in procuring such plans and estimates shall be determined by the commission, but shall be within the limits of appropriations made therefor, and shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Department of the Interior, under the direction of the executive officer of the commission. The commission shall make a report toReport by March 1, 1929.*Post*, p. 1261. the Congress on or before March 1, 1929, including a detailed statement of such plans and estimates of costs.
Sec. 3. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $10,000,Sum authorized.*Post*, p. 1609. or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of section 2. Approved, December 21, 1928.
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