An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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Summary

To pay sundry bills for miscellaneous fixtures and for glass for exhibition cases for the National Museum, $2,891.42 is appropriated. The sum of $5,000 is provided to meet expenses of receiving, packing, transporting to Washington, and installing, or storing such new specimens and collections as may be presented to the United States at the New Orleans Exposition. For the restoration of the collections sent to the New Orleans Exposition to their proper places in the National Museum, $2,500 is appropriated.

Subject

  • New Orleans Exposition
  • United States National Museum

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • 23 Stat. 446
  • Title 20, Education
  • Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

23 Stat. 446 (1885); ch. 359 (Book)

Contact information

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

Date

  • 1885
  • 03/03/1885

Topic

  • Museum finance
  • Restoration
  • Preservation of materials
  • Finance
  • Furniture, equipment, etc
  • Transportation
  • Specimens
  • Exhibitions
  • Expenditures, Public
  • Museums
  • Museums--Furniture, equipment, etc

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 2; Page Numbers: 446, 463

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