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

Summary

The following sums are appropriated: $10,000 for expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution; $40,000 to continue ethnological researches among the American Indians; $5,600 for finishing and completing the furnishing of the eastern portion of the Smithsonian Institution; $9,000 for heating and lighting the National Museum; $95,000 for the preservation of collections of the National Museum; $2,500 for the preservation of collections in the Armory Building and for preserving the property of the United States Fish Commission contained therein; $40,000 for furniture and fixtures of the National Museum; $200 for the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries.

Subject

• Armory Building
• Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
• United States Fish Commission
• United States National Museum

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

• 23 Stat. 478
• Title 20, Education
• Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

23 Stat. 478 (1885); ch. 360 (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

• Government publications
• International exchanges
• Museum finance
• Heating
• Preservation of materials
• Finance
• Lighting
• Furniture, equipment, etc
• Ethnology
• Expenditures, Public
• Museums
• Maps
• Museums--Furniture, equipment, etc
• Museum publications

Place

North America

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 4; Page Numbers: 478, 494, 501, 507

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