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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   1534

(Appendix 1)

87th Congress 
1st Session

Rough Draft

Revision No. 3

A BILL

To provide for a National Portrait Gallery as a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "National Portrait Gallery Act".

Sec. 2. For the purposes of this Act--

(a) The term "Board" means the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

(b) The term "Commission" means the National Portrait Gallery Commission as provided for in this Act.

(c) The term "Gallery" means the National Portrait Gallery established by this Act.

(d) The term "gift" includes a gift, bequest, or devise, whether outright or in trust, and any legal instrument by which the gift is effected.

(e) The term "portraiture" includes portraits and reproductions thereof made by any means or process, whether invented or developed heretofore or hereafter.

Sec. 3. (a) There is hereby established in the Smithsonian Institution a bureau which shall be known as the National Portrait Gallery. The functions of such a bureau shall be those authorized by this Act. The use for the purposes of the Gallery of the whole or any part of the building transferred to the Smithsonian Institution pursuant to the Act of March 28, 1958 (72 Stat. 68), is hereby authorized.

(b) The Gallery shall function as a free public museum for the exhibition of 

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