fi84 CONGKESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



March 3. 1871. 



Legislative, executive, and judicial act. for 1872. 



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 (Stat., XVI, 479.) 



CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART. 



May 24, 1870. 



Be it enacted, etc.^ That James M. -Carlisle, James C. Hall, George 

 W. Riggs, Anthony Hyde, James G. Berret, James C. Kenned}^, Henry 

 D. Cooke, and James C. McGuire, of the city of Washington, and of 

 Georgetown, District of Columbia, and William T. Walters, of the city 

 of Baltimore, State of Maryland, and their successors, be, and they 

 are hereby, created and constituted a body politic and corporate in 

 law, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of 

 Art, and by that name \nsij sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, 

 have perpetual succession, and shall and may take, hold, manage, and 

 dispose of, at all times, real and personal estate, and shall and may do 

 and perform all other acts and things necessary or appropriate for the 

 execution of the trusts created and conferred on them in and by a cer- 

 tain deed from William W. Corcoran, to them, the said parties here- 

 inbefore named, which is dated the tenth day of May, 1869, and was 

 recorded on the eighteenth of the same month in liber D, number 

 eight, folio 294, et sequitur, one of the land records of Washington 

 County, District of Columbia, to which reference is hereby made for 

 greater certainty; the intent of this charter of incorporation being that 

 the same shall be in execution of the trusts in the said deed declared 

 and set forth, and not to any other intent or purpose whatever. 



Sec. 2. A^id he it f\irtlier enacted, That the Secretary of War, the 

 Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of State be, and they are 

 hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain and settle, upon princi- 

 ples of justice, a fair and just compensation for the use of the ground 

 and buildings described in the before-mentioned deed, while the same 

 were occupied by the United States for the public service, and that the 

 sum so ascertained and settled by them, or a majority of them, shall, 

 upon their certificate and award thereof, be paid to the corporation 

 hereinbefore created, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 

 appropriated. 



Sec. 3. And he it furtlier enacted, That any tax which may be 

 claimed or due to the United States, by reason of the transfer of the 

 property above mentioned or the execution and delivery of the said 

 deed from the said William W. Corcoran to the above-named trustees, 

 be, and the same is hereby, remitted and released. 



Stsc. 4. And he it further enacted. That the aforesaid buildings and 

 grounds connected therewith, together with all the works of art that 



