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[H. R. 8372]

An Act To provide for the construction and equipment of an annex to the Library of Congress.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commission created by the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the acquisition of certain property in the District of Columbia for the Library of Congress, and for other purposes," approved May 21, 1928, is authorized and directed to provide for the construction and equipment of a fireproof annex to the Library of Congress (including approaches, connections with the Capitol power plant, and architectural landscape treatment of the grounds). Such building shall be constructed on the site acquired under the provisions of such Act of May 21, 1928. It shall contain suitable space for book, newspaper, and file stacks; for storage, reference, and other rooms; offices for the Copyright Office, card service, and the branch printing office and bindery. It shall be connected by a suitable tunnel with the Library of Congress, for which purpose the necessary structural changes in the Library of Congress building and additions to the said building are authorized. Such annex shall be equipped with such furnishings and mechanical and other equipment and apparatus as may be necessary, including equipment and apparatus required for transportation and communication between the Library of Congress and the annex.

SEC. 2. All plans for the construction or alteration of buildings under authority of this Act shall be approved by the commission. The Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the commission, is authorized, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, to enter into contracts to purchase materials, supplies, equipment, and accessories in the open market, to employ necessary personnel, including architectural, engineering, and other professional services, without reference to section 35 of the Act approved June 25, 1910 (United States Code, title 40, section 265), section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (United States Code, title 41, section 5), or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended (United States Code, title 5, chapter 13; United States Code, Supplement III, chapter 13), and to make such expenditures as may be necessary, including expenditures for advertising and travel and for the purchase of technical and reference books.

SEC. 3. The commission created under the Act of May 21, 1928, shall continue in existence until six months after the completion of the building.

SEC. 4. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $6,500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the commission to carry out the provisions of this Act. Appropriations made under authority of this Act shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Department of the Interior.

Approved, June 13, 1930.

[S. 2899]

AN ACT

To provide for increasing the limit of cost for the construction and equipment of an annex to the Library of Congress.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the limit of cost for the construction of the annex, Library of Congress, as fixed in section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction and equipment of an annex to the Library of Congress", approved June 13, 1930, is hereby increased by $2,866,340; and the Architect of the Capitol is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such amount or so much thereof as may be necessary in addition to the contract authority heretofore fixed by law for such annex.

Approved, June 6, 1935.

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SUBJECT

1. COMMISSION FOR ENLARGING CAPITOL GROUNDS, AND

AMENDMENTS.

2. CAPITAL AUDITORIUM COMMISSION.

[S. 2301]

An Act To create a commission to be known as the Commission for the enlarging of the Capitol Grounds, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, the Chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, the chairman and ranking minority member of the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, the minority leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the House of Representatives and the Architect of the Capitol, are hereby created a commission to be known as the Commission for the Enlarging of the Capitol Grounds. The commission is authorized to consider plans and estimates for the creation of a park area to enlarge the Capitol Grounds, including the plans showing the original scheme for the development of this area, and the alternative scheme for the development of this and added areas, and to recommend to the Congress such original and alternative plans or schemes with estimates of costs therefor, together with recommendations for the purchase of such other areas as may be considered necessary to give to the plans for the enlargement of the Capitol Grounds a suitable landscape treatment for the Capitol Building in relation to the landscape treatment with the proposed arrangement of the Mall area.

SEC. 2. If the Commission is unable to submit a final report before the expiration of the Seventieth Congress, those Members of the House of Representatives who are members of the Commission at the date of expiration of such Congress, if Members-elect to the succeeding Congress, shall continue as members of such commission until their successors are determined by the organization of the House of Representatives of the Seventy-first Congress.

Approved, April 11, 1928.

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