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PUBLIC LAW 128-JULY 1, 1955

established within the individual areas administered by the Secretary of the Interior through the National Park Service as a means of informing the public concerning the areas and preserving valuable objects and relics relating thereto. The Secretary of the Interior, notwithstanding other provisions or limitations of law, may perform the following functions in such manner as he shall consider to be in the public interest: (a) Accept donations and bequests of money or other personal property, and hold, use, expend, and administer the same for purposes of this Act; (b) Purchase from such donations and bequests of money museum objects, museum collections, and other personal properties at prices he considers to be reasonable; (c) Make exchanges by accepting museum objects, museum collections, and other personal properties, and by granting in exchange therefor museum property under the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary which is no longer needed or which may be held in duplicate among the museum properties administered by the Secretary, such exchanges to be consummated on a basis which the Secretary considers to be equitable and in the public interest; (d) Accept the loan of museum objects, museum collections, and other personal properties and pay transportation costs incidental thereto, such loans to be accepted upon terms and conditions which he shall consider necessary; and (e) I ^ a n to responsible public or private organizations, institutions, or agencies, without cost to the United States, such museum objects, museum collections, and other personal property as he shall consider advisable, such loans to be made upon terms and conditions which he shall consider necessary to protect the public interest in such properties. Approved July 1, 1955. CHAPTER 260

Public Law 128 AN ACT

Creating a Federal commission to formulate plans for the construction in the District of Columbia of a civic auditorium, including an Inaugural Hall of Presidents and a music, fine arts, and mass communications center.

July 1, 1955 [H. R. 1825]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the D. C. Auditorium: United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) there is commission. hereby established a commission to be known as the "District of Columbia Auditorium Commission'' (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission") for the purpose of formulating plans for the design, location, financing, and construction in the District of Columbia of a civic auditorium, including an Inaugural Hall of Presidents and a of I n a u g u r a l Hall Presidents. music, fine arts, and mass communications center. (b) The Commission shall be composed of twenty-one members appointed as follows: (1) Seven persons appointed by the President of the United States; (2) Seven persons appointed by the President of the Senate; and (3) Seven persons appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. (c) The Commission shall— (1) consider a suitable site for the civic auditorium referred to in subsection (a); (2) procure such plans and designs and make such surveys and estimates of the cost thereof as it deems advisable;

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