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

Summary

The 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.

Subject

• Armory Building
• United States Fish Commission
• United States National Museum

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

• 21 Stat. 435
• Title 20, Education
• Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

21 Stat. 435 (1881); ch. 133 (Book)

Contact information

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

Date

• 1881
• 03/03/1881

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Telephone
• Finance
• Transportation
• Ethnology
• Museums
• Archaeology
• Government publications
• International exchanges
• Museum finance
• Mounds
• Electricity
• Heating
• Lighting
• Furniture, equipment, etc
• Expenditures, Public
• Maps
• Museums--Furniture, equipment, etc

Place

North America

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 5; Page Numbers: 435, 443, 447, 449, 452

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