An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes

Summary

The sum of $300 is appropriated for the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries. The following additional sums are appropriated: $60,000 for furniture and fixtures of the national museum; $6,000 for heating and lighting the National Museum; $75,000 for the preservation of collections; $2,500 for care of collections in the Armory Building and for storage of the duplicate collections of the government and of property of the United States Fish Commission; $10,000 for the expense of transferring to Washington the collections presented to the United States at the close of the Permanent International Exhibition in Philadelphia; and $7,500 for the purchase of the plates and manuscript on the insects of America from Professor Townend Glover.

Subject

• Glover, Townend
• Armory Building
• Permanent International Exhibition, Philadelphia
• United States Fish Commission
• United States National Museum

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

• 22 Stat. 302
• Title 20, Education
• Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

22 Stat. 302 (1882); ch. 433 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

• 1883
• 08/07/1882

Topic

• Museum finance
• Insects
• Heating
• Finance
• Lighting
• Museum conservation methods
• International relations
• Expenditures, Public
• Manuscripts
• Maps

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 4; Page Numbers: 302, 319, 332-33

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