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sculpture, engravings, miniatures and other articles, the same to be and 
become a part of the said National Art Gallery so established by the 
United States of America at, and in connection with, the said Smithsonian 
Institution. 
And whereas, the said Testatrix, Harriet Lane Johnston, in bequeathing 
the said pictures and other articles to the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery 
of Art, in and by the codicil hereinbefore mentioned to her said Will, made 
it a condition of the said bequest that the said articles should be kept 
together in a room provided for the purpose, and to be designated as the 
“Harriet Lane Johnston Collection;” and whereas it is apparent that it 
was the design of the said Testatrix if the said pictures and other articles 
bequeathed in connection with the same should belong to, and become a 
part of the National Art Gallery established in the City of Washington by 
the United States of America, that the above mentioned provision for the 
keeping together in a room all of the said articles so bequeathed, and that 
the same should be designated as the “Harriet Lane Johnston Collection” 
(prescribed as the condition upon which the same should become the 
property of the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art) should be the 
condition upon which they should become part of the National Art Gallery 
established by the United States of America, 
Now therefore, it is further adjudged, ordered and decreed, as a condition 
upon which the title of the United States of America shall be acquired in the 
said pictures and other articles hereinbefore mentioned, that the same shall 
all be kept, so as to form one distinct collection, in one hall or room in one 
of the buildings of the Smithsonian Institution, the several classes of the 
said articles being arranged and located in said hall or room according to 
the best judgment of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; and that 
in an appropriate, prominent and permanent way, the said Collection shall 
be designated and declared to be the “Harriet Lane Johnston Collection.” 
And it is further adjudged, ordered and decreed, that the costs of the 
proceedings in this case in connection with this decree shall be paid by the 
complainants as Executors of Harriet Lane Johnston, deceased. 
WendeUv P. Stafford, Justice. 
In accordance with this decree, the Harriet Lane Johnston 
collection was, by an order of the court dated July 18, 1906, 
delivered to the Smithsonian Institution on August 3, following, 
and recorded under accession No. 46,383. It was immediately 
installed in the reception room and office of the Secretary, in the 
Smithsonian building, where it remained until November 20, 
when it was transferred to the temporary picture gallery in the 
Museum building. In this place the paintings and marbles are 
arranged along the south wall, and the miscellaneous objects in 
an exhibition case close by. The total number of pieces is 
thirty-one, as described below. 
