Joint resolution authorizing the acceptance of a gift from the Ericsson Memorial Committee of the United States
PL 84-910 (S.J.Res.93), enacted 08/02/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 910-AUG. 2, 1956 
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Hawaii. 
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ology, oceanography, terrestrial magnetism and electricity, volcan-
ology, geochemistry and petrology, hydrology, and tectonophysics: 
It is hereby 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the National Science 
Foundation (hereinafter referred to as the "Foundation"), is hereby 
authorized and directed to conduct an investigation into the need for 
and the feasibility and usefulness of a geophysical institute located in 
the Territory of Hawaii. 
In conducting such an investigation, the 
Foundation shall give particular attention to— 
(a) the benefits to the Federal Government which would arise 
from the establishment and maintenance of such an institute; 
(b) the appropriateness of financing by the Federal Govern-
ment, in whole or in part, of the establishment or of the establish-
ment and maintenance of such an institute; 
(c) if such financing by the Federal Government appears ap-
propriate, the agency or agencies of the executive branch to which 
appropriation should be made and upon which directional author-
ity should be conferred; and 
(d) the extent, if any, to which such a geophysical institute 
should be a part of or otherwise related to the University of 
Hawaii. 
SEC. 2. The Foundation shall report the results of its investigations, 
together with its recommendations based thereon, to the Congress not 
later than nine months after the date of enactment of this Act. 
The 
final report shall include estimates of the cost, if any, to the United 
States of the establishment or of the establishment and maintenance 
of the geophysical injstitute so recommended. 
Approved August 1, 1956. 
August 2, 1956 
Public Law 910 
CHAPTER 870 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
[s. J. Rea. 93] 
Authorizing the acceptance of a gift from the Ericsson Memorial Committee of 
the United States. 
statue. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
mo^i'^'^cl^rtt^er *^i<^i^^ of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the 
^Acc ep tance of Interior, on behalf of the United States, is hereby authorized to accept 
the ofi'er of the Ericsson Memorial Committee of the United States of 
a replica of the heroic bronze statue of Leif r Eiricsson, the original of 
said replica having been presented to the people of Iceland by the 
United States Government as a gesture of good will and friendly rela-
tions on the one thousandth anniversary of Althing, the Icelandic 
parliament. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is further authorized and 
directed to choose upon the recommendation of the National Commis-
sion of Fine Arts, and concurred in by the National Park Service, a 
site on the public grounds of the United States in the District of 
Columbia; and is further authorized and directed to design and erect 
an appropriate pedestal upon which to place said statue. 
SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior is further authorized to accept 
from any source donations of funds to carry out the provisions of 
section 2 of this joint resolution. 
Approved August 2, 1956. 
Site. 
Funds.