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Excerpt from Lincoln Memorial Commission Report: Message From the President of the United States, Transmitting a Report of the Lincoln Memorial Commission, and Its Recommendations, Upon the Location, Plan, and Design for a Memorial in the City of Washington, to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Accordan To the Senate and House of Representatives: The Lincoln Memorial Commission has the honor to submit the following report and recommendation upon the location, plan, and design for a memorial in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. The Commission was created by act of Congress, approved February 9, 1911, which reads as follows: [Public No. 346.] [S. 9449.] An Act To provide a commission to secure plans and designs for a monument or memorial to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. Be it enacted by the Senate an$ House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That William H. Taft, Shelby M. Cullom, Joseph G. Cannon, George Peabody Wetmore, Samuel Walker McCall, Hernando D. Money, and Champ Clark are hereby created a Commission, to be known as the Lincoln Memorial Commission, to procure and determine upon a location, plan, and design for a monument or memorial in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, subject to the approval of Congress. Sec. 2. That in the discharge of its duties hereunder said Commission is authorized to employ the services of such artists, sculptors, architects, and others as it shall determine to be necessary, and to avail itself of the services or advice of the Commission of Fine Arts, created by the act approved May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.