An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes

Summary

A Public Buildings Commission is created to be composed of two Senators, two Members of the House of Representatives, the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, and the Supervising Architect or the Acting Supervising Architect of the Treasury. This commission shall have the absolute control of and the allotment of all space in the several public buildings owned or buildings leased by the United States in the District of Columbia, with the exception of the Executive Mansion and office of the President, Capitol Building, the Senate and House office Buildings, the Capitol power plant, the buildings under the jurisdiction of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Congressional Library building. The provisions and limitations respecting the George Washington Memorial Building in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year 1918 are continued and extended to March 4, 1920.

Subject

• Board of Regents
• Public Buildings Commission

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

• 40 Stat. 1213
• Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works
• Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

40 Stat. 1213 (1919); ch. 86 (Book)

Contact information

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

Date

• 1919
• 03/01/1919

Topic

• Public buildings
• Administrative agencies
• Construction (Buildings)
• George Washington Memorial Building

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 3; Page Numbers: 1213, 1269-70

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