An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes
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PrintThe following sums are appropriated; $25,000 for continuing ethnological researches among the North American Indians, of which $5,000 shall be expended in continuing archaeological investigations relating to mound-builders and prehistoric mounds; $500 for the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries; $6,000 for the expense of heating, lighting, telephonic and electrical service for the National Museum; $3,000 for exchanging literary and scientific productions with all nations; $55,000 for the preservation and care of the collections of the surveying and exploring expeditions; and $2,500 for the preservation of collections in the Armory building and for storage of duplicate government collections and of property of the United States Fish Commission.
Smithsonian Legal Documents
Statutes at Large
21 Stat. 435 (1881); ch. 133 (Book)
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