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PUBLIC LAWS ENACTED DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, November 15, 1937, and adjourned without day on Tuesday, December 21, 1937 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President; JOHN N. GARNER, Vice President; KEY PITTMAN, President of the Senate pro tempore; WILLAM B. BANKHEAD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. [CHAPTER 1] JOINT RESOLUTION Granting the consent of Congress for the loan of certain portraits now located in the Capitol to the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission for exhibition in the Corcoran Art Gallery. November 19, 1937 [S. J . Res. 222] [Pub. Res., No. 76] Resolved by the Senate and House of Reptesentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Architect of the u.qS.iconfstitution Capitol be, and he is hereby, authorized to loan to the United States Commission. Loan of crrtainpor- Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission the portraits of Thomas traits to, for eibt Jefferson by Sully; George Washington by Gilbert Stuart; Gunning purpose. Bedford, Junior, by Peale and Henry Lawrence by Copley, now located in the Capitol Building, for exhibition in the Corcoran Art Gallery between the dates of November 27, 1937, and February 1, 1938, in connection with the celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. The said architect is directed to have these portraits returned to Return. the Capitol immediately after the conclusion of the exhibition above referred to. Approved, November 19, 1937. [CHAPTER 2] JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for certain expenses incident to the second session of the Seventy- fifth Congress. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the payment of pages for the Senate and House of Representatives from November 15 to December 31, 1937, both dates inclusive, there are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- priated, the following sums: For twenty-one pages for the Senate at $4 per day each, $3,948. For forty-seven pages for the House of Representatives at $4 per day each, $8,836. Approved, November 26, 1937. 3 November 26, 1937 [H. J. Res. 5161 [Pub. Res., No. 76] Appropriation for payment of pages, second session of Seventy-fifth Con- gress. Senate. House of Represent- atives.