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 114 STAT. 954 PUBLIC LAW 106-291—OCT. 11, 2000 (iii) has been designated as a National Historic Landmark; (C) since its creation, the Museum of New Mexico has worked to protect and promote Southwestern, Hispanic, and Native American arts and crafts; (D) the Palace of the Governors houses the history division of the Museum of New Mexico; (E) the Museum has an extensive, priceless, and irreplaceable collection of— (i) Spanish Colonial paintings (including the Segesser Hide Paintings, paintings on buffalo hide dating back to 1706); (ii) pre-Columbian Art; and (iii) historic artifacts, including— (I) helmets and armor worn by the Don Juan de Oiiate expedition conquistadors who established the first capital in the territory that is now the United States, San Juan de los Caballeros, in July 1598; (II) the Vara Stick used to measure land grants and other real property boundaries in Dona Ana County, New Mexico; (III) the Columbus, New Mexico Railway Station clock that was shot, stopping the pendulum, freezing for all history the moment when Pancho Villa's raid began; (IV) the field desk of Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny, who was posted to New Mexico during the Mexican War and whose Army of the West traveled the Santa Fe trail to occupy the territories of New Mexico and California; and (V) more than 800,000 other historic photographs, guns, costumes, maps, books, and handicrafts; (F) the Palace of the Governors and its contents are included in the Mary C. Skaggs Centennial Collection of America's Treasures; (G) the Palace of the Governors and the Segesser Hide paintings have been declared national treasures by the National Trust for Historic Preservation; and (H) time is of the essence in the construction of an annex to the Palace of the Governors for the exhibition and storing of the collection described in paragraph (E), because— (i) the existing facilities for exhibiting and storing the collection are so inadequate and unsuitable that existence of the collection is endangered and its preservation is in jeopardy; and (ii) 2010 marks the 400th anniversary of the continuous occupation and use of the Palace of the Governors and is an appropriate date for ensuring the continued viability of the collection. (2) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: (A) ANNEX.— The term "Annex" means the annex for the Palace of the Governors of the Museum of New Mexico, to be constructed behind the Palace of the Governors building at 110 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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