F IFTY~EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 1475, 1476. 1905. 1045 Coates, Thomas Jeiferson Coolidge, Frank Miles Day, Albert Dean Currier, William E. Dodge, William F. Dra ,r, William E. Eames, Charles W. Eliot, Theodore N. Ely, MarshallField, Charles L. F reer, Daniel Chester French, W. M. R. French, Henry C. F rick, Lyman J. Gage, Richard Watson Gilder, Cass Gilbert, Daniel Coit Gilman,` Elmer Ellsworth Garnsey, Arthur T. Hadley. Charles C. Harrison, Thomas Hastings, William H. Herriman, Henry L. Hig nson, Charles L. Hutchinson, William M. Kendall, John La Tlarge, Charles Lanier, Frederick Layton, Austin W. Lord, George B. McClellan, Clarence H. Mackay, Charles F. McKim, William C. McMillan, Frederic MacMonnies, William Rutherford Mead, Frank Millet, S. Weir Mitchell, Charles Moore, Edwin D. Morgan, J. Pierpont Morgan, H. Siddons Mowbray, Frederick Law Olmsted, Francis L. Patton, Robert Swain Peabody, Henry Kirke Porter, George B. Post, Henry S. Pritchett, Frederick W. Rhinelander, James D. Richardson, Edward Robinson, Elihu Root, F. Augustus Schermerhorn, J. G. Schurman, Carl Schurz, James Speyer, James Stillman, Waldo Story, Augustus Saint Gaudens, H. A. C. Taylor, S. Breck Parkman Trowbridge, Wil1iam K. Vanderbilt, Henr Walters, John Q. A. Ward, Henry White, Stanford White, S. O. Warren, Egerton L. Winthrop, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia by the name of the American Academy in Rome, for the purpose of establishing P¤¤>°¤°¤- and maintaining an institution to promote the study and practice of the fine arts and to aid and stimulate the education and training of architects, painters, sculptors, and other artists, by enabling such citizens of the United States as shall be selected by com tition from among those who have passed with honor through leadihg technical schools or have been equally well qualified by private instruction or stulfto develop their powers and complete their training under the moiifavorable conditions of direction and surroundings. Sm. 2. That said corporation may adopt a constitution and make all P°"°”· by-laws, rules, and regulations not inconsistent with law that may be necessary or expedient in order to accomplish the purposes of its creation;+and it may hold real estate and personal property in the United States and in the Kingdom of Italy for the necessary use and purposes of said organization to an amount not to exceed one million do lars; and it may adopt a seal. Said corporation shall have its principal office Principal cmce. in Washington, in the District of Columbia, and shall old its annual meetings in such places as the said inco rators shall determine. Sec. 3. That no official of the UnitedStates shall be eligible to serve D"°°°°"’· as director of the said cor ration, and when any director shall become an oficial of the United Sthtes he shall cease by virtue of this Act to he a director of the corporation hereby authorized. Sec. 4. That under no circumstances shall the United States be liable ,,§,‘{,'§,2‘{}’m"°‘ G"' for any obligation incurred by this corporation. Approved, March 3, 1905. CHAP. 1476.-An Act 'Io authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct dams Much 3- 190** across the Yellowstone River in Montana in connection with irrigation works. Pu ic, o. 209. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Cbngress assembled, That where, in carrying out MZgl·>W¤*<>¤¤ Ri*’¢*· rojects under the provisions of the national reclamation Act, it shall nam under mm. lie necessary to construct dams in or across the Yellowstone River in ‘“§‘,‘(§§“3{°,§ 38,, the State of Montana, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to construct and use and operate the same in the manner and for the purposes contemplated by said reclamation Act. Approved, March 3, 1905.
