An Act To provide for the transfer of the Civil Service Commission Building in the District of Columbia to the Smithsonian Institution to house certain art collections of the Smithsonian Institution

Summary

The Administrator of General Services shall transfer the Civil Service Commission Building , formerly known as the Patent Office Building, and the site thereof located between Seventh and Ninth Streets and F and G Streets Northwest in the District of Columbia, to the Smithsonian Institution without reimbursement, for the use of certain art galleries of the Smithsonian Institution.

Author

85th Congress, Sess. 2, 1858

Subject

• Civil Service Commission Building
• United States General Services Administration
• Patent Office Building (POB)

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

• 72 Stat. 68
• Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works
• Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

72 Stat. 68 (1958); Pub. L. No. 85-357 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

• 1959
• 03/28/1958

Topic

• Civil Service Commission Building
• Art museums

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 1; Page Numbers: 68

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