Congress. SEC. 6. That such commission, on or before the 1st day Report to of December of each year, shall transmit to Congress a report of its activities and proceedings for the preceding year, including a full and complete statement of its receipts. and expenditures. An Act To amend the Act entitled "An Act creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and defining its powers and purposes", approved February 25, 1929, and for other purposes, approved June 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 1223) Mount Rushmore National Commission. Successor to be Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and de- Memorial fining its powers and purposes", approved February 25, 1929, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "If by reason of death, disability, or other cause, any individual to whom functions are assigned under this section has been or shall be rendered unable to perform such functions, the Commission is authorized to designate or employ such other person as it deems competent to perform such functions." appointed in case of death, dis ability, etc. Federal SEC. 2. Section 5 of such Act of February 25, 1929, is contribution. amended to read as follows: Appropriation Advances, from sums available. "SEC. 5. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated authorized. the sum of not to exceed $250,000 for the purpose of defraying the cost of such memorial and landscaping. Such sums as may be appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be advanced to the treasurer of said Commission from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury upon requisition of the executive committee provided for by this Act." Continuation of SEC. 3. Any funds heretofore made available for expen- appropriations. diture under the provisions of such Act of February 25, 1929, are hereby made available for expenditure under such Act as amended by this Act. An Act To provide additional funds for the completion of the Mount Rush authorized for Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of more National any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not Memorial, to exceed the sum of $200,000, in addition to the amount Appropriation previously authorized, for the purpose of defraying the completing. cost of completing the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, in the State of South Dakota, including landscaping of the contiguous grounds thereof, constructing the entrances thereto, and constructing a suitable museum room in connection therewith. SEC. 2. The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Com- Contracts mission, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, authorized. Mount Rushmore Memorial Act of 1938. Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission. 45 Stat. 1300, Quorum. Restriction on compensation; payment of expenses. Proviso. Secretary or treasurer, compensation. Organization, etc. Treasurer may be a bank; bond required. Executive committee. Completion of memorial. is hereby authorized to enter into contract for the execution and completion of the work and to fix the compensations to be paid to artists, sculptors, landscape architects, and others, who may be employed by the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission, in the completion of the said Mount Rushmore National Memorial pursuant to the provisions of section 3 of Public Law Numbered 805, Seventieth Congress, approved February 25, 1929, as amended by section 1 of Public Law Numbered 471, Seventy-third Congress, approved June 26, 1934. An Act To amend the Act entitled "An Act creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and defining its purposes and powers", approved February 25, 1929, as amended, approved June 15, 1938 (52 Stat. 694) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Mount Rushmore Memorial Act of 1938". SEC. 2. The Act entitled "An Act creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and defining its purposes and powers", approved February 25, 1929 (45 Stat. 1300), as amended, is amended as follows: Strike out all of such Act, after the first paragraph of section 1, and insert the following: "Any six members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum. No member of the Commission shall receive compensation for his services, but the actual expenses of any member in connection with the work of the Commission may be paid from any appropriations available for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the payment to any member of the Commission who may be elected secretary or treasurer of the Commission of such compensation for the performance of his duties as secretary or treasurer, as may be determined by the Commission. "SEC. 2. The Commission shall elect its chairman, vice chairman, secretary, and treasurer. The chairman and the vice chairman shall, and the secretary and the treasurer may but need not, be elected from among the members of the Commission. The treasurer may be a bank or trust company. The treasurer shall execute a bond so conditioned and in such amount as shall insure the protection of funds coming into his possession. The Commission may create from its own membership an executive committee of five, which shall exercise such powers and functions within the purview of this Act as may be authorized by the Commission. "SEC. 3. The Commission shall, in accordance with designs and models prepared by the designer-sculptor, complete the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, including an entablature upon which shall be cut a suitable inscription, construction of a museum and a stairway to the mu seum hall, reconstruction of the studio for preservation of the models, landscaping of contiguous grounds, and con- No admission struction of the entrance to the memorial. No charge shall charge. ever be made for admission to the memorial grounds or for viewing the memorial. Authority of area within Har ney National Forest, S. Dak. "SEC. 4. The Commission is authorized"(a) To designate and describe by metes and bounds an area of not more than fifteen hundred acres of the public lands of the United States within the Harney National Forest, State of South Dakota, immediately surrounding the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Upon such designation such area is hereby reserved for and declared Reservation as to be a part of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, part of memorial. and withdrawn from location or entry under the mining or other laws of the United States. The Commission shall prepare a survey of such area and shall furnish a plat thereof to the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, and the United States land office at Pierre, South Dakota: Provided, That this Act shall not defeat or affect any Proviso. vested right under the mining or other laws of the United States and which is hereafter maintained in accordance therewith. ."(b) To receive and take over all property, contracts, rights, and moneys heretofore possessed by the Mount Harney Memorial Association, including memoranda, records, sketches, models, and the incompleted figures on Mount Rushmore. Vested rights under mining, etc., laws not affected. Receipt of prop- possessed by Memorial of funds. "(c) To administer funds appropriated, or obtained by Administration gifts, the acceptance of which is hereby authorized, for the purpose of completing, developing, and maintaining the memorial, and to pay out the same upon properly receipted vouchers to persons entitled thereto. artists, "(d) To employ, without regard to the civil-service Employment of laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, such sculptors, etc. artists, sculptors, landscape architects, and other employees as it shall determine to be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Administration, etc., of "(e) To administer, protect, and develop the memorial. "(f) To exercise such other powers and functions, including the promulgation of such rules and regulations, as Other powers. may be necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of this Act. authorized. "SEC. 5. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions Additional sum of this Act, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, in addition to any sums authorized to be appropriated prior to the date of approval of this Act, the sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Upon requisition of the Commission, the Secretary of the Treasury shall advance to the treasurer of the Commission out of amounts appropriated for such purpose, such sums as may funds be needed by the Commission to exercise its functions. "SEC. 6. The Commission shall, on or before the first day of each regular session of Congress, transmit to Con any Advance to treasurer from appropriated. Report to Transmitted May 9, 1939. Effective July 1, 1939. 5 U.S.C. sec. Mount Rush- Mount Rush- 52 Stat. 694. Area enlarged. Proviso. Restrictions on use of funds. Proviso. Mount Rush- gress a report of its activities and proceedings for the preceding fiscal year, including a full and complete statement of its receipts and expenditures." Excerpt from "Reorganization Plan No. II, Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, May 9, 1939, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1939, approved April 3, 1939." (4 Fed. Reg. 2731; 53 Stat. 1431, 1434) (i) Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission.The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and its functions are hereby transferred to the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior. The functions vested in the Commission by section 3 and 4 (a) of the Act of June 15, 1938, (c. 402, 52 Stat. 694) shall continue to be exercised by the Commission. All other functions of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission shall be administered by the National Park Service under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior. (5) U.S.C. sec. 133t note, p. 90.) An Act To amend the Mount Rushmore Memorial Act of 1938, approved May 22, 1940 (54 Stat. 218) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 of the Mount Rushmore Memorial Act of 1938, approved June 15, 1938, is amended as follows: Strike out the words "fifteen hundred acres" and insert in lieu thereof the words "eighteen hundred acres: Provided, That while appropriations necessary to complete the Memorial as authorized by law may be made, no part of any funds appropriated to the Rushmore Memorial Commission may be used for the development of the three hundred acres herein proposed to be added to the Memorial Reserve and no part of any funds appropriated under any Act may be used to pay a royalty or percentage to the sculptor for any work other than that necessarily incident to the sculpturing project.” Excerpt from "An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes," approved July 3, 1941 (55 Stat. 541, 553) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE National historical parks and monuments: *** Provided, That the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission shall cease to exist or function on June 30, 1942.1 1 Amended by Act of July 12, 1943, p. 141. An Act Authorizing the construction of a crypt for the remains of Gutzon and Mary Borglum, approved July 11, 1941 (55 Stat. 584) Gutzon and Construction of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission, organized under the authority of Public, Numbered 629, Seventy-fifth Congress, is hereby authorized to construct a crypt which shall serve as the permanent resting place for the remains of Gutzon and Mary Borglum, of such a design and at such place in Mount Rushmore National Memorial as the Commission deems appropriate after consultation with the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That such Proviso. crypt shall not be located in the immediate vicinity of the central figures of such Memorial. SEC. 2. The cost of the tomb authorized by this Act shall be borne entirely from funds privately subscribed. Excerpt from "An Act Making_appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, and for other purposes," approved July 12, 1943 (57 Stat. 451, 486) Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission: Notwithstanding the proviso under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, approved July 3, 1941, the Commission is hereby revived for performing, without any expense to the United States, the functions authorized by the Act of July 11, 1941 (Public Law 164), and when such functions are accomplished the Commission shall cease to exist or function. 52 Stat. 694. Commission revived for certain purposes. 55 Stat. 584. |