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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 5 — Government Collections and Institutions for Research, and Material for Educational Institutions

§ 92. Admissions to marine biological station for pursuit of investigations

Statutory text

The professors, instructors, and students of the several land-grant, agricultural, and mechanical colleges of the United States shall be admitted to the marine biological station on the Gulf of Mexico on the coast of Florida, to pursue such investigation in fish culture and biology as may be practicable, without cost to the Government, under such rules and regulations as may be from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of Interior.

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. 61–189 § 2 · 36 Stat. 330

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 92

    Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 189, § 2, 36 Stat. 964

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 189, § 2, 36 Stat. 964

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec.2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section consists of section 2 of act . Section 1 thereof authorizing the establishment of the marine biological station on the Gulf coast of the State of Florida, referred to in text, on the condition that the State of Florida donate the necessary land and water rights, is not classified to the Code. The provisions of said section 1 requiring donation of the required land and water rights by the State were amended by act Aug. 1, 1914, ch. 223, § 1, 38 Stat. 665, which authorized the donation of the required land and water rights by a corporation, firm, or individual in addition to the State.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

“Secretary of Commerce” substituted in text for “Secretary of Commerce and Labor” pursuant to act , which changed name of Department of Commerce and Labor to Department of Commerce.

Station at Sarasota, Florida

The Fish and Wildlife Service established a marine biological station at Sarasota, Florida, during the year 1948.

Disposal of Station

Secretary of Commerce was authorized to dispose of the marine biological station at Key West, Fla., by act Apr. 29, 1929, ch. 2, 46 Stat. 2.

Under communication of the Fish and Wildlife Service dated , it was stated the land on which was situated this station was reconveyed to the Key West Realty Company by quit claim deed executed by the Secretary of Commerce.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Bureau of Fisheries in Department of Commerce which administered marine biological station referred to in text under supervision of Secretary of Commerce transferred to Department of the Interior under direction of Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, and by Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. Bureau of Fisheries consolidated with Bureau of Biological Survey into Fish and Wildlife Service in Department of the Interior and under supervision of Secretary of the Interior, which was succeeded by United States Fish and Wildlife Service, see section 742b of Title 16, Conservation.

Credits

1911–1940 · 5 acts
  1. 1911Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 189, § 2, 36 Stat. 964
  2. 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736
  3. 1914Aug. 1, 1914, ch. 223, § 1, 38 Stat. 665
  4. 19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433
  5. 19401940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 3, eff. , 5 F.R. 2107, 54 Stat. 1231.
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(Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 189, § 2, 36 Stat. 964; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736; Aug. 1, 1914, ch. 223, § 1, 38 Stat. 665; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 3, eff. , 5 F.R. 2107, 54 Stat. 1231.)

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