\[PUBLIC RESOLUTION---NO. 43---68^TH^ CONGRESS\]

\[H. J. Res. 259\]

Joint Resolution Establishing a commission for the participation of the
United States in the observance of the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, authorizing an
appropriation to be utilized in connection with such observance, and for
other purposes.

*Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled*, That there is hereby
established a commission to be known as the United States
Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial Commission (hereinafter referred to
as the commission) and to be composed of eleven commissioners, as
follows: Three persons to be appointed by the President of the United
States, four Senators by the President of the Senate, and four Members
of the House of Representatives by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives. The commission shall serve without compensation and
shall select a chairman from among their number.

SEC. 2. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of \$5,000 to
be expended by the commission for actual and necessary traveling
expenses and subsistence while discharging its official duties outside
the District of Columbia.

SEC. 3. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of \$10,000 to
be utilized in the discretion of the commission for the appropriate
participation on the part of the United States in the celebration and
observance of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of
Lexington and Concord to be commemorated on or about April 19 and 20,
1925.

SEC. 4. That the Postmaster General is hereby authorized and directed to
issue a special series of postage stamps, in such denominations and of
such designs as he may determine, commemorative of the one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord and of the
one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of such other major events of the
Revolutionary War as he may deem appropriate.

SEC. 5. That in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord there shall be coined
at the mints of the United States silver 50-cent pieces to the number of
three hundred thousand, such 50-cent pieces to be of the standard troy
weight, composition, diameter, device, and design as shall be fixed by
the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the
Treasury, which said 50-cent pieces shall be legal tender in any payment
to the amount of their face value.

SEC. 6. That all laws now in force relating to the subsidiary silver
coins of the United States and the coining or striking of the same,
regulating and guarding the process of coinage, providing for the
purchase of material, and for the transportation, distribution, and
redemption of the coins, for the prevention of debasement or
counterfeiting, for security of the coin, or for any other purposes,
whether said laws are penal or otherwise, shall, so far as applicable,
apply to the coinage herein authorized : *Provided,* That the United
States shall not be subject to the expense of making the necessary dies
and other preparations for this coinage.

Approved, January 14, 1925.

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