Note 251 — ARTICLE II (continued 2)

McClure, 394-403; cf. The Constitution, article IV, section 3, clause 2. When President John Adams signed a deed conveying property for a legation to the Queen of Portugal, he was informed by his Attorney General that only Congress was competent to grant away public property. See W.B. Bryan, A History of the National Capitol From Its Foundation Through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Act, I, 328-329; 1 American State Papers, Misc., 334. See also Chief Justice Hughes, for the Court, in Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 297 U.S. 288, 330 (1936).