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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries

§ 53. Protection of property

Statutory text

All laws for the protection of public property in the city of Washington shall apply to, and be in force for, the protection of the lands, buildings, and other property of the Smithsonian Institution. All moneys recovered by or accruing to, the institution shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the Smithsonian bequest, and separately accounted for.

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.

  1. (R.S. § 5589.)

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 53

    (R.S. § 5589.)

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (R.S. § 5589.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 5589 derived from act Aug. 10, 1846, ch. 178, § 5, 9 Stat. 104.

Credits

(R.S. § 5589.)

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