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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3n SESS.-CH. 908-OCT. 22, 1940 1207 functions vested in it by this joint resolution. Any vacancy occurring committee vacan- in the membership of such committee (hereinafter referred to as the "committee") shall be filled by the selection of a person selected in the same manner as his predecessor was selected. In carrying out the pro- Utilization of desig- visions of this joint resolution, the committee is authorized to utilize servces voluntary and uncompensated services and, with the consent of any Federal agency, to utilize the facilities and personnel of such agency. The committee is authorized to make any additional recommendations Additional recom- to the Congress which it deems desirable. Upon the completion of its Reportto Congress. work, the committee shall transmit a final report to the Congress and shall thereupon cease to exist. SEC. 2. The committee shall prepare for publication a memorial Memorialvolume. volume designed to perpetuate the memory of Justice Holmes and to make readily available to the public the best expressions of his thought. Such volume shall contain such of the writings of Justice Holmes as are selected by the committee, and shall contain such additional matter and such illustrations as the committee may determine. The Librarian Library of Congress of Congress shall make available to the committee the facilities of, and preparation. the services of the personnel of, the Library of Congress to assist the committee in the preparation of such volume. SEC. 3. The Public Printer is authorized and directed to cause to Printing and bind- be printed and bound in the Government Printing Office, in a man- ner and form approved by the committee, such number of copies of the memorial volume prepared by the committee as the committee shall determine. The Superintendent of Documents shall distribute Distribution. free of cost copies of such volume to such libraries, institutions, and other organizations and persons as the committee may designate. Copies of such volume which are not distributed free of cost shall sale. be made available by the Superintendent of Documents for sale to the public at a price, notwithstanding any other provision of law, determined by the Public Printer to represent the actual cost of printing, binding, and distribution. The cost of printing and bind- aPentdipinting ing all of the copies of such volume shall be paid from money Holmes fund. appropriated from the money in the Treasury to the credit of the account "Donations to the United States, Bequest of Oliver Wen- dell Holmes" (hereinafter referred to as the "Holmes fund"). Receipts from the sales of copies of such volume shall be covered into v.' ofreceipts from the Holmes fund so long as that fund is carried on the books of the Treasury, and thereafter such receipts shall be covered into the general fund of the Treasury. SEC. 4. The Architect of the Capitol is authorized and directed, toacquirte oiaepifo under the direction of the committee, to acquire on behalf of the garden. United States, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, that part of the property in square 759 in the District of Columbia which the Architect of the Capitol, with the approval of the committee, deter- mines will provide a suitable site for the garden to be established pursuant to section 5. SEC. 5. (a) The Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of oliver Wiend t ell the committee, is authorized and directed to establish on the land Holmes Garden. acquired pursuant to section 4 a memorial garden designed to per- petuate the memory of Justice Holmes and to commemorate the love of beauty and of the quiet open spaces of the city of Washington, to which he often gave expression. The garden so established shall be known as the Oliver Wendell Holmes Garden. (b) The plans and designs of such garden, including the plans ofPgland designs and designs for all grading and landscaping and all structures to be erected and other improvements to be made on the land acquired pursuant to section 4, shall be selected by the Architect of the Capitol, with the approval of the committee and of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, from plans and designs

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