Title 20 — Education
Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries
§ 47. Acting Secretary
Statutory text
The chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution may, by an instrument in writing filed in the office of the Secretary thereof, designate and appoint a suitable person to act as Secretary of the Institution when there shall be a vacancy in said office, and whenever the Secretary shall be unable from illness, absence, or other cause to perform the duties of his office; and in such case the person so appointed may perform all the duties imposed on the Secretary by law until the vacancy shall be filled or such inability shall cease. The said chancellor may change such designation and appointment from time to time as the interests of the Institution may in his judgment require.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 48–44 · 23 Stat. 21
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 47
(May 13, 1884, ch. 44, 23 Stat. 21.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 13, 1884, ch. 44, 23 Stat. 21.)
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Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
Similar prior provisions were contained in act Jan. 24, 1879, ch. 21, 20 Stat. 264.
Credits
(May 13, 1884, ch. 44, 23 Stat. 21.)