Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents
Chapter 29 — Records Management by the Archivist of the United States and by the Administrator of General Services
§ 2910. Preservation of Freedmen’s Bureau records
Statutory text
The Archivist shall preserve the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly referred to as the “Freedmen’s Bureau”, by using—
microfilm technology for preservation of the documents comprising these records so that they can be maintained for future generations; and
the results of the pilot project with the University of Florida to create future partnerships with Howard University and other institutions for the purposes of indexing these records and making them more easily accessible to the public, including historians, genealogists, and students, and for any other purposes determined by the Archivist.
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.
Freedmen’s Bureau Records Preservation Act of 2000
Pub. L. 106–444 § 2(a) · 114 Stat. 1929
Enacted · 44 U.S.C. § 2910
(Added Pub. L. 106–444, § 2(a), Nov. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 1929.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 106–444, § 2(a), Nov. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 1929.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) In General.— Chapter 29 of title 44, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “§ 2910. Preservation of Freedmen’s Bureau records “The Archivist shall preserve the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly referred to as the ‘Freedmen’s Bureau’, by using— “(1) microfilm technology for preservation of the documents comprising these records so that they can be maintained for future generations; and (2) the results of the pilot project with the University of Florida to create future partnerships with Howard University and other institutions for the purposes of indexing these records and making them more easily accessible to the public, including historians, genealogists, and students, and for any other purposes determined by the Archivist.”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 2910, Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1297, provided for final authority of Administrator in records practices, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 94–575, § 2(a)(4), , 90 Stat. 2726.
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 106–444, § 2(a), , 114 Stat. 1929.)