Norbeck-Williamson Act of 1929

Long titleAn Act creating the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission and defining its purposes and powers.NicknamesMount Rushmore National Memorial Act of 1929Enacted bythe 70th United States CongressEffectiveFebruary 25, 1929CitationsPublic lawPub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 70–805Statutes at Large45 Stat. 1300Legislative history

Norbeck-Williamson Act of 1929 or Mount Rushmore National Memorial Act of 1929 established the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission defining the powers and purpose of the twelve member committee. The Act of Congress authorized the Mount Harney Memorial Association of South Dakota to stone carve models of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt in the Harney National Forest encompassed by the Black Hills National Forest. The granite sculpture was to be created in accordance with the rock relief designs by Gutzon Borglum.

In 1928, the 70th Congressional session members Peter Norbeck and William Williamson formulated the code of law for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Act. The Senate bill was passed by the United States Congressional session and enacted into law by the 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge on February 29, 1929.

Clauses of the Act

The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission Act was drafted as six sections describing the purposes of the United States statute.

Sec. 1 - Commission Composition and Creation

Members allowance for expenses

Compensation for secretary

Sec. 2 - Organization

Selection of treasurer

Membership of executive committee

Sec. 3 - Completion of Memorial

Sec. 4 - Authority

Mount Harney Memorial Association property rights

Disbursement and receivables of funds

Employment of artists and sculptors

Other powers

Sec. 5 - Federal Contribution Limitation

Advance to treasurer of appropriated funds

Condition of funds to treasurer

Sec. 6 - Report to Congress

Amendments to 1929 Act

U.S. Congressional amendments to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission Act.

Date of Enactment	Public Law Number	U.S. Statute Citation	U.S. Legislative Bill	U.S. Presidential Administration
June 26, 1934	P.L. 73-471	48 Stat. 1223	S. 3533	Franklin D. Roosevelt
August 29, 1935	P.L. 74-393	49 Stat. 962	S. 3204	Franklin D. Roosevelt
June 15, 1938	P.L. 75-629	52 Stat. 694	H.R. 10462	Franklin D. Roosevelt
May 22, 1940	P.L. 76-519	54 Stat. 218	H.R. 8357	Franklin D. Roosevelt

See also

Black Hills Gold Rush	Keystone, South Dakota
Carl Gunderson	Lincoln Borglum
Charles E. Rushmore	Lincoln Borglum Museum
Construction of Mount Rushmore	Lorado Taft
Custer, South Dakota	Needles Highway
Doane Robinson	Seated Lincoln
Gilbert Fite	Sheridan, South Dakota

Documentary Film Bibliography

• Mount Rushmore - An Evolving Idea on YouTube
• Mount Rushmore - Telling America's Stories on YouTube
• Mount Rushmore Was Supposed to Look Very Different on YouTube
• Mount Rushmore - Who are the Faces on the Mountain? on YouTube
• Mount Rushmore - Winter at the Memorial on YouTube
• The Hall of Records, A Not So Secret Room on YouTube
• The Sculptor's Studio Talk at Mount Rushmore National Memorial on YouTube

Further reading

• Fite, Gilbert Courtland (1952). Mount Rushmore. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 1–272. ISBN 978-0964679856. OCLC 1524519.
• Domek, Tom; Hayes, Robert E. (May 15, 2006). Mt. Rushmore and Keystone (SD) (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0738539614.

External links

• Media related to Mount Rushmore National Memorial at Wikimedia Commons
• Black Hills National Forest travel guide from Wikivoyage
• "Asks Hoover to Unveil Mountain Memorial – Borglum Says Coolidge Also Wishes to Attend Ceremony at Mt. Rushmore on July 4". The Times’s Archive. The New York Times. March 29, 1930.
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. (August 30, 1936). "Informal Extemporaneous Remarks at Mount Rushmore National Memorial - August 30, 1936". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 309–310.
• "Mount Rushmore Founders and Sponsors". National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior.
• "Mount Rushmore Historical Letters and Legislation". National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior.
• "Mount Rushmore Memorial History". National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior.
• "Mount Rushmore National Memorial". South Dakota State Historical Society. State of South Dakota.
• Borglum, Gutzon (1925). "Statues of Abraham Lincoln - Mount Rushmore". Internet Archive. Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection. OCLC 1085320578.
• "The Presidents and The National Parks". WhitehouseHistory.org. Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association.
• Monument Men - The Road to Rushmore (DVD). San Francisco, California: Mill Creek Entertainment. 2015. OCLC 961877895.
• "Mount Rushmore Society". Speartek, Inc.