An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to permit the removal of the Francis Asbury statue, and for other purposes
PL 91-238 (S.1968), enacted 05/04/1970

84 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 91-238-MAY 4, 1970 
201 
Public Law 91-237 
AN ACT 
To provide that the Federal Office Building and United States Courthouse in 
Chicago, Illinois, shall be named the "Everett McKinley Dirksen Building". 
May 1. 1970 
[S. 3253] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Federal 
Office Building and United States Courthouse at 219 South Dearborn 
Street in Chicago, Illinois, shall be renamed the "Everett McKinley 
Dirksen Building" in memory of the late Everett McKinley Dirksen, 
a distinguished Member of the United States House of Representatives 
from the State of Illinois from 1933 to 1949 and of the United States 
Senate from 1950 to 1969. Any reference to the Federal Office Building 
and United States Courthouse at 219 Soujth Dearborn Street in 
Chicago, Illinois, in any law, regulation, document, record, map, or 
other paper of the United States shall be deemed a reference to such 
building as the "Everett McKinley Dirksen Building". 
SEC. 2. Upon a determination that a local educational agency lacks 
the fiscal capacity to provide an adequate free public education for 
children of persons who live and work on Federal property, and if 
such children constitute not less than 25 percent of the total enrollment, 
the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall from sums 
already available make emergency payments for the current school 
year to such local educational agency as may be necessary to provide 
a free public education for such children: Provided^ That the total 
of such payments shall not exceed $2,500,000 and shall not exceed the 
average per pupil cost to such agency for all children eligible to receive 
a free public education from such agency, less Federal and State 
payments to such agency for free public education. 
Approved May 1, 1970. 
Everett McKinley 
Dirksen Building;. 
Designation. 
Impacted areas;, 
Emergency 
school payments 
by HEW, fiscal 
1970. 
Limitation. 
Public Law 91-238 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to permit the removal of the Francis 
Asbury statue, and for other purposes. 
May 4, 1970 
[S. 1968] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate <md House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to permit the removal of the statue of 
Francis Asbury erected, pursuant to the Act of February 28, 1919 (40 
Stat. 1213), on lands in the District of Columbia now under the admin-
istrative jurisdiction of the National Park Service, and to convey 
without compensation title to said statue to the Methodist Corpora-
tion, a religious corporation duly organized and existing under the 
laws of the District of Columbia, upon such terms and conditions as 
the Secretary deems necessary. The removal of the statue and restora-
tion of the site to the satisfaction of the Secretary .shall be without cost 
to the United States. 
Approved May 4, 1970. 
Francis Asbury 
statue, removal.