An Act making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for former Years, and for other Purposes

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Summary

The sum of $5,000 is appropriated for the renovation and fire-proofing of the vacant apartments in the Smithsonian Institution building in order to properly distribute and exhibit the government collections of natural history, geology, and mineralogy.

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • 17 Stat. 122
  • Title 20, Education
  • Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

17 Stat. 122 (1872); ch. 172 (Book)

Contact information

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

Date

  • 1873
  • 05/18/1872

Topic

  • Fireproofing
  • Museum finance
  • Architecture
  • Geology
  • Preservation of materials
  • Finance
  • Mineralogy
  • Natural History
  • Repair and reconstruction
  • Expenditures, Public
  • Buildings--Repair and reconstruction
  • Natural history

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 2; Page Numbers: 122, 131

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