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sculpture, engravings, miniatures and other articles, the same to be and 

 become a part of the said National Art Gallery so established by the 

 United States of America at, and in connection with, the said Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



And whereas, the said Testatrix, Harriet Lane Johnston, in bequeathing 

 the said pictures and other articles to the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery 

 of Art, in and by the codicil hereinbefore mentioned to her said Will, made 

 it a condition of the said bequest that the said articles should be kept 

 together in a room provided for the purpose, and to be designated as the 

 "Harriet Lane Johnston Collection;" and whereas it is apparent that it 

 was the design of the said Testatrix if the said pictures and other articles 

 bequeathed in connection with the same should belong to, and become a 

 part of the National Art Gallery estabUshed in the City of Washington by 

 the United States of America, that the above mentioned provision for the 

 keeping together in a room all of the said articles so bequeathed, and that 

 the same should be designated as the "Harriet Lane Johnston Collection" 

 (prescribed as the condition upon which the same should become the 

 property of the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art) should be the 

 condition upon which they should become part of the National Art Gallery 

 established by the United States of America, 



Now therefore, it is further adjudged, ordered and decreed, as a condition 

 upon which the title of the United States of America shall be acquired in the 

 said pictures and other articles hereinbefore mentioned, that the same shall 

 all be kept, so as to form one distinct collection, in one hall or room in one 

 of the buildings of the Smithsonian Institution, the several classes of the 

 said articles being arranged and located in said hall or room according to 

 the best judgment of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; and that 

 in an appropriate, prominent and permanent way, the said Collection shall 

 be designated and declared to be the "Harriet Lane Johnston Collection." 



And it is further adjudged, ordered and decreed, that the costs of the 

 proceedings in this case in connection with this decree shall be paid by the 

 complainants as Executors of Harriet Lane Johnston, deceased. 



Wendell P. Stafford, Justice. 



In accordance with this decree, the Harriet Lane Johnston 

 collection was, by an order of the court dated July i8, 1906, 

 deUvered to the Smithsonian Institution on August 3, following, 

 and recorded under accession No. 46,383. It was immediately 

 installed in the reception room and office of the Secretary, in the 

 Smithsonian building, where it remained until November 20, 

 when it was transferred to the temporary picture gallery in the 

 Museum building. In this place the paintings and marbles are 

 arranged along the south wall, and the miscellaneous objects in 

 an exhibition case close by. The total number of pieces is 

 thirty-one, as described below. 



