An Act making Appropriations for the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses of Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight

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Summary

The following sums are appropriated: for compensation of keepers, watchmen, and laborers responsible for the preservation of the collections of the Exploring Expedition, $3,450; for contingent expenses, $200; for suitable cases to receive the collections of the Exploring Expedition, and others, in geology and mineralogy, belonging to the U.S. now in the Patent Office, $15,000; and for the expense of the transfer of these collections to the Smithsonian Institution, and the permanent arrangement of the cases, $2,000. With this legislation, the Smithsonian assumes responsibility for the national collections.

Subject

  • Patent Office
  • United States Exploring Expedition (USEE)

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • 11 Stat. 206
  • Title 20, Education
  • Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

11 Stat. 206 (1857); ch. 107 (Book)

Contact information

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

Date

  • 1859
  • 03/03/1857

Topic

  • Scientific expeditions
  • Museum finance
  • Geology
  • Preservation of materials
  • Finance
  • Mineralogy
  • Furniture, equipment, etc
  • Officials and employees
  • Expenditures, Public
  • Museums
  • Salaries
  • Museums--Furniture, equipment, etc
  • Officials and employees--Salaries

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 2; Page Numbers: 206, 219

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