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 PUBLIC LAW 95-9—MAR. 8, 1977

91 STAT. 19

Public Law 95-9 95th Congress Joint Resolution To authorize a special gold medal to be awarded to Miss Marian Anderson.

Mar. 8, 1977 [H.J. Res. 132]

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in recognition of the Marian highly distinguished and impressive career of Miss Marian Anderson Anderson. for a period of more than a half a century during which she has been Gold medal. the recipient of the highest awards from a score of foreign countries, for her untiring and unselfish devotion to the promotion of the arts in this country and throughout the world including the establishment of scholarships for young people, for her strong and imaginative support to humanitarian causes at home, for her contributions to the cause of world peace through her work as United States delegate to the United Nations and her performances and recordings which have reached an estimated seven million people throughout the world, and her unstinting efforts on behalf of the brotherhood of man, and the >. . many treasured moments she has brought to us with enormous demand '^' ' " ^ on her time, talent, and energy, the President of the United States, or his delegate, is authorized to award to Marian Anderson, in the name of Congress, an appropriate gold medal. For such purpose the Secretary of the Treasury is aut];iorized and directed to cause to be struck a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the Secretary. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause duplicates in Duplicate copies, bronze of such medal to be coined and sold, under such regulations as he may prescribe, at a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof (including labor), and the appropriations used for carrying out the provisions of this section shall be reimbursed out of the proceeds of such sale. SEC. 3. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $2,500 to Appropriation authorization. carry out the purposes of this resolution. SEC. 4. The gold medal and the bronze duplicates are national medals within the meaning of section 3551 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 368). Approved March 8, 1977.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 123 (1977): Feb. 23, considered and passed House. Feb. 24, considered and passed Senate.

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