for the payment of subscriptions that have been made or that may be made 
to the Building Fund until six months after peace has been declared.” 
Mr. Choate was requested to draft a letter which the President could send to 
the subscribers to the Museum Building Fund in order that its terms 
might be legally binding upon the donors or their heirs to make pay- 
ment of the subscription when it was due. May 7 
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