Joint resolution authorizing the acceptance of the Joint Committee on the Library on behalf of the Congress, from the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, of preliminary design sketches and funds for murals in the first floor corridors in the House wing of the Capitol, and for other purposes.
PL 94-497 (H.J.Res.967), enacted 10/14/1976

PUBLIC LAW 94-497—OCT. 14, 1976 
90 STAT. 2377 
Public Law 94-497 
94th Congress 
Joint Resolution 
Authorizing the acceptance of the Joint Committee on the Library on behalf of 
the Congress, from the United States Capitol Historical Society, of preliminary 
design sketches and funds for murals, in the first floor corridors in the House 
wing of the Capitol, and for other purposes. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assejnhled, That, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Joint Committee on the Library is author-
ized to accept, on behalf of the Congress, as a gift from the United 
States Capitol Historical Society, preliminary design sketches 
intended as a basic design for murals proposed to be painted on the 
ceiling and walls of the first floor corridors in the House wing of the 
United States Capitol. 
SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Architect 
of the Capitol is authorized— 
(1) to accept in the name of the United States, from the United 
States Capitol Historical Society, such sum or sums as such society 
may tender in full payment thereof, and such sum or sums, when 
so received, shall be credited to the appropriation account "Capi-
tol Buildings, Architect of the Capitol", and 
(2) subject to section 3 of this joint resolution, to expend such 
sum or sums for the employment, by contract, of an artist or 
artists, for the execution of mural decorations on the ceiling and 
walls of the first floor corridor in the House wing of the United 
States Capitol in substantial accordance with the preliminary 
design sketches referred to in the first section of the joint resolu-
tion, after the acceptance by the Joint Committee on the Library, 
and for all other necessary items in connection therewith, subject 
to such modifications thereof as may be approved by such joint 
committee. 
SEC. 3. The Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the 
Speaker of the House of Eepresentatives, is authorized to enter into 
contracts and to incur such other obligations and make such expendi-
tures, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the joint 
resolution. 
SEC. 4. Sums received under the joint resolution, when credited to 
the appropriation account "Capitol Buildings, Architect of the 
Capitol", shall be expended and shall remain available until expended. 
Any net monetary amounts remaining after the completion of the 
Oct. 14, 1976 
[HJ. Res. 967] 
U.S. Capitol. 
Design sketches 
and funds for 
murals. 
40 u s e 166 note. 
40 u s e 166 note. 
Contract 
authority. 
40 u s e 166 note. 
40 u s e 166 note. 
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PUBLIC LAW 94-497—OCT. 14, 1976 
project authorized by the joint resolution, and in excess of the cost of 
such project, shall be returned to the United States Capitol Historical 
Society. 
Approved October 14, 1976. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1396 (Comm. on House Administration). 
SENATE REPORT No. 94-1371 (Comm. on Rules and Administration). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 122 (1976): 
Sept. 20, considered and passed House. 
Oct. 1, considered and passed Senate.