An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-one
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PrintVarious sums (in all, $14,500) are appropriated for the Bureau of Education, United States Department of the Interior, as well as $12,000 for John Wesley Powell to complete his survey of the Colorado of the West.
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Powell's specimens eventually came to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum.
16 Stat. 230 (1870); ch. 251 (Book)
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Number of pages: 22; Page Numbers: 230-51