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Public Law 373

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PUBLIC LAW 373-AUG. 12, 1955

CHAPTER 859

JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the acceptance and maintenance of Presidential libraries, and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 507 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (44 IJ. S. C, sec. 397), is hereby amended as follows: (1) By amending subsection (e) to read as follows: "(e) The Administrator is authorized, whenever he deems it to be in \ii<i public interest, to accept for deposit— " (1) the papers and other historical materials of any President or former President of the United States, or of any other official or former official of the Government, and other papers relating to and contemporary with any President or former President of the United States, subject to restrictions agreeable to the Administrator as to their use; and "(2) documents, including motion-picture films, still pictures, and sound recordings, from private sources that are appropriate for preservation by the Government as evidence of its organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and transactions." (2) By redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (h), and by inserting after subsection (e) the following new subsection: " (f) The Administrator is authorized, whenever he deems it to be in the public interest— "(1) to accept, for and in the name of the United States, any land, buildings, and equipment offered as a gift to the United States for the purposes of creating a Presidential archival depository, and to take title to such land, buildings, and equipment on behalf of the United States, and to maintain, operate, and protect them as a Presidential archival depository, and as part of the national archives system; and to enter into agreements, upon such terms and conditions as he deems proper, with any State, political subdivision, university, institution of higher learning, institute, or foundation to utilize as a Presidential archival depository land, buildings, and equipment of such State, subdivision, university, or other organization, to be made available by it without transfer of title to the United States, and to maintain, operate, and protect such depository as a part of the national archives system: Provided, That the Administrator shall submit a report in writing on any such proposed Presidential archival depository to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, which report shall include a description of the land, buildings, and equipment offered as a gift or to be made available without transfer of title as aforesaid, a statement of the terms of the proposed agreement, if any, a general description of the types of papers, documents, or other historical materials which it is proposed to deposit in the Presidential archival depository so to be created, and of the terms of such proposed deposit, a statement of the additional improvements and equipment, if any, necessary to the satisfactory operation of such depository, together with an estimate of the cost thereof, and an estimate of the annual cost to the United States of maintaining, operating, and protecting such depository: Provided further, That the Administrator shall not take title to any such land, buildings, and equipment or enter into any such agreement, until the expiration of the first period of sixty calendar days of continuous session of the Congress following the date on which such report is trans-

August 12, 1955 [H. j. Res. 3303

Presldential l i braries. Acceptance and maintenance. 64 Stat. 587.

G i f t s of lands, b u i l d i n g s, and equipment.

Report to Con^ gress.

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