An Act to incorporate the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution

Summary

• The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution is incorporated and its purposes, property limits and headquarters are established. The society shall report annually to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution concerning its proceedings. The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to permit the society to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other material for history in the Smithsonian Institution or in the United States National Museum.
• Termination of reporting requirements was effective May 15, 2000, of provisions of law requiring submittal to Congress of any annual, semiannual, or other regular periodic report listed in House Document No. 103-7 (in which a report required under this section is listed on page 192), see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance.

Subject

• Board of Regents
• Daughters of the American Revolution
• United States National Museum

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

• 29 Stat. 8. 29 Stat. 9
• Title 36, Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies and Organizations, sec. 18B
• Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

29 Stat. 8 (1896); ch. 23 (Book)

Contact information

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

Date

• 1897
• 02/20/1896

Topic

• Books and reading
• Preservation of materials
• History, organization, etc
• Annual Reports
• Societies
• Manuscripts
• Books
• Societies--History, organization, etc

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 2; Page Numbers: 8-9

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