90 THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 



The full text of the decree is as follows : 



In the Supreme Court of the District op Columbia. 



D. K. EsTE Fisher, and others, Executors 

 and Trustees under the Last Will and Testa- 

 ment of Harriet Lane Johnston, deceased, 



V. 



Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children 

 of Baltimore City, and others. 



Equity, No. 25,160. Doc. 



This cause coming on for hearing in respect to the subject matters set 

 forth in the Thirteenth Paragraph of the Bill of Complaint; the allegations 

 of the said paragraph, the Answers thereto of the several Defendants, the 

 provisions of the Last Will and Testament and of the several codicils thereto 

 of the Testatrix, Harriet Lane Johnston, and the testimony taken on 

 behalf of the United States of America in support of its answer to the 

 allegations of the said thirteenth paragraph of the Bill of Complaint, having 

 been by the Court (after argument of counsel for the United States of 

 America and for the Defendant the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children 

 of Baltimore City, the residuary legatee and devisee named in the said 

 Last Will and Testament of the said Testatrix) fully considered. 



It is, therefore, on this eleventh day of July, in the year 1906, by the 

 Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting in Equity, and by the 

 authority thereof, adjudged, ordered and decreed. 



That there has been established by the United States of America in the 

 City of Washington a National Art Gallery, within the scope and meaning 

 of that part of the codicil bearing date April 21, 1902, made by the said 

 Harriet Lane Johnston to her Last Will and Testament, in the proceedings 

 in this case mentioned, wherein she gave and bequeathed the pictures, 

 miniatures and other articles, to the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 

 and in the event of the Government establishing in the City of Washington 

 a National Art Gallery, then that the said pictures and other articles above 

 mentioned should be delivered to the said National Art Gallery and become 

 its property; and that the said National Art Gallery is the National Art 

 Gallery established by the United States of America at, and in connection 

 with, the Smithsonian Institution located in the District of Columbia and 

 described in the Act of Congress entitled an Act to establish the "Smith- 

 sonian Institution" for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge among 

 men, approved August 10, 1846, 9 Stat. L. 103, (Title LXXIII, Section 

 5579 R. S. U. S.) and the subsequent Acts of Congress amendatory thereof; 

 and it is further adjudged, ordered and decreed, that the United States of 

 America is entitled to demand and receive from the surviving Executors 

 of the said Harriet Lane Johnston, the Complainants named in the Bill of 

 Complaint in this case, all of the above mentioned pictures, articles of 



