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 694 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 402-JUNE 15, 1938 [CHAPTER 402] June 15, 1938 [H. R. 10462] [Public, No. 629] Mount Rushmore Memorial Act of 1938. Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission. 45 Stat. 1300. Quorum. Restriction on com- pensation; payment of expenses. Proriso. Secretary or treas- urer, compensation. Organization, etc. Treasurer may be a bank; bond required. Executive commit- tee. Completion of Me- morial. No admission charge. Authority of Com- mission. Designation of nrea within Harney Na- tional Forest, S. Dak. Reservation as part of Memorial. Proviso. Vested rights under mining, etc., laws not affected. Receipt of property heretofore possessed by Mount Harney Memorial Associa- tion. [52 STAT. AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and defining its purposes and powers", approved February 25, 1929, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Mount Rushmore Memorial Act of 1938". SEC. 2. The Act entitled "An Act creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and defining its purposes and powers", approved February 25, 1929 (45 Stat. 1300), as amended, is amended as follows: Strike out all of such Act, after the first paragraph of section 1, and insert the following: "Any six members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum. No member of the Commission shall receive compensation for his services, but the actual expenses of any member in connection with the work of the Commis- sion may be paid from any appropriations available for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act: Provided,That nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the payment to any member of the Commission who may be elected secretary or treasurer of the Commission of such compensation for the performance of his duties as secretary or treasurer, as may be determined by the Commission. "SEC. 2 . The Commission shall elect its chairman, vice chairman, secretary, and treasurer. The chairman and the vice chairman shall, and the secretary and the treasurer may but need not, be elected from among the members of the Commission. The treasurer may be a bank or trust company. The treasurer shall execute a bond so conditioned and in such amount as shall insure the protection of funds coming into his possession. The Commission may create from its own mem- bership 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 . The Commission shall, in accordance with designs and models prepared by the designer-sculptor, complete the Mount Rush- more National Memorial, including an entablature upon which shall be cut a suitable inscription, construction of a museum and a stair- way to the museum hall, reconstruction of the studio for preservation of the models, landscaping of contiguous grounds, and construction of the entrance to the memorial. No charge shall ever be made for admission to the memorial grounds or for viewing the memorial. "SEC. 4. The Commission is authorized- "(a) To designate and(describe by metes and bounds an area of not more than fifteen hundred acres of the public lands of the United States within the Harney National Forest, State of South Dakota, immediately surrounding the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Upon such designation such area is hereby reserved for and declared to be a part of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, and with- drawn from location or entry under the mining or other laws of the United States. The Commission shall prepare a survey of such area and shall furnish a plat thereof to the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, and the United States land office at Pierre, South Dakota: Provided, That this Act shall not defeat or affect any vested right under the mining or other laws of the United States and which is hereafter maintained in accordance therewith. "(b) To receive and take over all property, contracts, rights, and moneys heretofore possessed by the Mount Harney Memorial Asso- ciation, including memoranda, records, sketches, models, and the incompleted figures on Mount Rushmore.

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