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ment of this trust indenture, or any supplement thereof, shall be made which 

 shall be in violation of the provisions of said joint resolution or of any future 

 act of Congress relating to the National Gallery of Art ; and provided further, 

 that in no event and under no circumstance shall this trust indenture be 

 altered, modified, amended, or supplemented as respects the provisions of article 

 VIII hereof, it being the intention and one of the express conditions of the 

 gift hereby made by the donor that the trust hereby created shall perpetually 

 be administered by trustees constituted in accordance with the provisions of 

 article VIII hereof. 



For the purpose of this section IX, the A. W. Mellon Educational and Char- 

 itable Trust shall be conclusively deemed to have been terminated if three- 

 fourths of the entire membership of the trustees, after such careful inquiry 

 as they shall deem to be suflBcient, shall be of the opinion that such trust no 

 longer continues to exist. 



In witness whereof, the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust has 

 caused this indenture of trust to be executed by the hands and seals of the 

 trustees thereof; the Smithsonian Institution, pursuant to a resolution duly 

 adopted by its Board of Regents, has caused this indenture of trust to be 

 signed and its official seal to be hereunto affixed by its secretary; and the 

 trustees of the National Gallery of Art have caused this indenture of trust to be 

 executed by the hands and seals of the trustees, all as of the day and year 

 first above written. 



The a. W. IMioixon Educational 



AND ChAOJITABLE TBUST, 



By (Signed) Andrew W. Mellon, 

 (Signed) TAtTL Mellon, 

 (Signed) Donald D. Shepabd, 

 (Signed) David K. E. Bbuce, 



Trustees thereof. 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 [seal] By (Signed) C. G. Abbot, Secretary. 



National Gallery of Art, 

 By (Signed) Charles Evans Hughes, 

 (Signed) Cordkll Hull, 

 (Signed) Henry Morgenthau, Jr., 

 (Signed) C. G. Abbot, 

 (Signed) A. W. Mellon, 

 (Signed) David K. E. Bruce, 

 (Signed) Duncan Phillips, 

 (Signed) S. Parker Gilbert, 

 (Signed) Donald D. Shepard, 



Trustees thereof. 



At the same meeting of the Board of Regents the following gentle- 

 men were appointed as general trustees of the National Gallery of 

 Art: 



Mr. Donald D. Shepard, for the term expiring July 1, 1939 ; 

 Mr. S. Parker Gilbert, for the term expiring July 1, 1941 ; 

 Mr. Duncan Phillips, for the term expiring July 1, 1943 ; 

 Mr. David K. E. Bruce, for the term expiring July 1, 1945 ; 

 Mr. A. W. Mellon, for the term expiring July 1, 194?. 



