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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries

§ 78a. Authorization of appropriations; availability of funds; limit on use of funds during fiscal year; supervision; rules and regulations

Statutory text

There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $65,000, which shall be available until expended for the above purposes: Provided, That at such time as the Smithsonian Institution is satisfied that any State agency, or any educational institution or scientific organization in any of the United States, is prepared to contribute to such investigation and when in its judgment such investigation shall appear meritorious, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution may make available for such investigation such amounts from this sum as shall be equal to the amounts contributed respectively by each such State agency, or educational institution or scientific organization: Provided further, That the amount to be made available from this sum for such investigation in cooperation with each such State agency, or educational institution or scientific organization, shall not exceed $10,000 in any fiscal year: Provided further, That all such cooperative work and division of the result thereof shall be under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution: Provided further, That where lands are involved which are controlled by the Government of the United States, cooperative work thereon shall be under the provisions of section 1866(b) of title 18 and sections 320302 and 320303 of title 54, and rules and regulations pertaining thereto.

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. Pub. L. 81–427 § 2 · 63 Stat. 606

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 78a

    Aug. 15, 1949, ch. 427, § 2, 63 Stat. 606

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 15, 1949, ch. 427, § 2, 63 Stat. 606

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of Appropriation authorized. any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $65,000, which shall be available until expended for the above purposes: Provided, That at such time as the Smithsonian Institution is satisfied that any State agency, or any educational institution or scientific organization in any of the United States, is prepared to contribute to such investigation Contributions. and when in its judgment such investigation shall appear meritorious, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution may make available for such investigation such amounts from this sum as shall be equal to the amounts contributed respectively by each such State agency, or educational institution or scientific organization: Provided further, That the amount to be made available from this sum Limitation. for such investigation in cooperation with each such State agency, or educational institution or scientific organization, shall not exceed $10,000 in any fiscal year: Provided further, That all such cooperative work and division of the result thereof shall be under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution: Provided further, That Government lands. where lands are involved which are controlled by 34 Stat. 225. the Government of the United States, cooperative work thereon shall be under the provisions of the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U. S. C. 432, 433), and rules and regulations pertaining thereto.

  2. Pub. L. 113–287 § 5(e)(1) · 128 Stat. 3094

    Substituted · 20 U.S.C. § 78a

    Pub. L. 113–287 substituted “section 1866(b) of title 18 and sections 320302 and 320303 of title 54” for “the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 432, 433)”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 113–287 substituted “section 1866(b) of title 18 and sections 320302 and 320303 of title 54” for “the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 432, 433)”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) Section 2 of the Act of August 15, 1949 (20 U.S.C. 78a) is amended by striking “the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 432, 433)” and substituting “section 1866(b) of title 18, United States Code, and sections 320302 and 320303 of title 54, United States Code”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–287 substituted “section 1866(b) of title 18 and sections 320302 and 320303 of title 54” for “the Act of (16 U.S.C. 432, 433)”.

Credits

1949–2014 · 2 acts
  1. 1949Aug. 15, 1949, ch. 427, § 2, 63 Stat. 606
  2. 2014Pub. L. 113–287, § 5(e)(1), , 128 Stat. 3268.
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(Aug. 15, 1949, ch. 427, § 2, 63 Stat. 606; Pub. L. 113–287, § 5(e)(1), , 128 Stat. 3268.)

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