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# 20 U.S.C. § 73 - Acceptance of gift from A. W. Mellon

## Text

Upon completion of the National Gallery of Art, the board shall accept for the Smithsonian Institution as a gift from the donor a collection of works of art which shall be housed and exhibited in the National Gallery of Art.

(Mar. 24, 1937, ch. 50, § 3, 50 Stat. 52.)