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THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
The full text of the decree is as follows : 
In the Supreme Court of the District of 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 
