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[CITE: 40USC187]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
 
Sec. 187. National Statuary Hall

    Suitable structures and railings shall be erected in the old hall of 
Representatives for the reception and protection of statuary, and the 
same shall be under the supervision and direction of the Architect of 
the Capitol. And the President is authorized to invite all the States to 
provide and furnish statues, in marble or bronze, not exceeding two in 
number for each State, of deceased persons who have been citizens 
thereof, and illustrious for their historic renown or for distinguished 
civic or military services, such as each State may deem to be worthy of 
this national commemoration; and when so furnished, the same shall be 
placed in the old hall of the House of Representatives, in the Capitol 
of the United States, which is set apart, or so much thereof as may be 
necessary, as a national statuary hall for the purpose herein indicated.

(R.S. Sec. 1814; Aug. 15, 1876, ch. 287, 19 Stat. 147.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1814 derived from act July 2, 1864, ch. 210, Sec. 2, 13 
Stat. 347.
    Section 2 of act July 2, 1864, gave the supervision and direction of 
the National Statuary Hall to the Commissioner of Public Buildings.

                         Change of Name

    Change of name of Architect of the Capitol, functions abolished, 
transferred, etc., by prior acts, see Codification and Prior Provisions 
notes set out under section 161 of this title.


                           Location of Statues

    House Concurrent Resolution 47, passed Feb. 24, 1933, 47 Stat. Part 
2, 1784, provided: ``That the Architect of the Capitol, upon the 
approval of the Joint Committee on the Library, with the advice of the 
Commission of Fine Arts, is hereby authorized and directed to relocate 
within the Capitol any of the statues already received and placed in 
Statuary Hall, and to provide for the reception and location of the 
statues received hereafter from the States.''
