An Act authorizing the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art to construct a building or buildings on the site bounded by Fourth Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, Third Street, and Madison Drive NW., in the District of Columbia, and making provision for the maintenance thereof.
PL 90-376 (S.3159), enacted 07/05/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-376-JULY 5, 1968 
[82 STAT. 
Ante, p. 285. 
^j^^ funds appropriated pursuant to section 21(f) (2) (C) for the pur-
pose of making such expenditure will not adversely affect the soimd 
administration of this Act. Any such gift shall be deposited in the 
Treasury of the United States for the account of the Bureau and may 
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be expended in accordance with section 6 or as provided in the preced-
ing sentence." 
Approved July 5, 1968. 
Public Law 90-376 
July 5, 1968 
AN ACT 
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Authorizing the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art to construct a building 
or buildings on the site bounded by Fourth Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, Third 
Street, and Madison Drive Northwest, in the District of Columbia, and making 
provision for the maintenance thereof. 
Be It enacted hy the SeTiate and House of Representatives 
of the 
^^Nationai Gallery [jjiif^d States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Trustees 
Additional 
of the National Gallery of Art are authorized to construct within the 
building. 
jipga reserved as a site for future additions by the third sentence of the 
first section of the joint resolution entitled "Joint Resolution provid-
ing for the construction and maintenance of a National Gallery of 
Art", approved March 24,1937 (50 Stat. 51; 20 U.S.C. 71 et seq.) one 
or more buildings to serve as additions to the National Gallery of Art. 
The cost of constructing any such building shall be paid from trust 
funds administered by such Trustees. The plans and specifications 
for any such building shall be approved by the Commission of Fine 
Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission. 
SEC. 2. Any building constructed under authority of the first sec-
tion of this Act shall, upon completion, be a part of the National 
Gallery of Art. 
SEC. 3. Paragraph (2) of section 9 of the Act entitled "An Act 
relating to the policing of the buildings and grounds of the Smith-
sonian Institution and its constituent bureaus", approved October 
78 Stat. 366. 
24,1951 (65 Stat. 634; 40 U.S.C. 193n et seq.) is amended by inserting 
" ( A ) " immediately after "held to extend" and by striking out the 
period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the 
following: "(B) to the line of the face of the south curb of Penn-
sylvania Avenue Northwest, between Fourth Street and Third Street 
Northwest, to the line of the face of the west curb of Third Street 
Northwest, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Drive North-
west, to the line of the face of the north curb of Madison Drive North-
west, between Third Street and Fourth Street Northwest, and to the 
line of the face of the east curb of Fourth Street Northwest, between 
Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Drive Northwest." 
Jurisdiction. 
g^,^^ ^ rpj^^ Commlssiouer of the District of Columbia is authorized 
to transfer to the United States such jurisdiction as the District of 
Columbia may have over any of the property within the area referred 
to in the first section of this Act. 
SEC. 5. If any public utility (whether privately or publicly owned) 
located within the area referred to in the first section of this Act is 
required to be relocated or protected by reason of the construction 
within such area of any addition to the National Gallery of Art, the 
cost of such relocation or protection shall be paid from trust funds 
administered by the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art. 
Approved July 5, 1968.