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Page 651  TITLE 20-EDUCATION -76-  §69

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§65a. Director of the National Museum; duties; programs and studies; annual report to Congress; authorization of appropriations

(a) The Director of the National Museum under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution shall - 
(1) cooperate with museums and their professional organizations in a continuing study of museum problems and opportunities, both in the United States and aboard;
(2) prepare and carry out programs by grant, contract, or directly for training career employees in museum practices in cooperation with museums, their professional organizations, and institutions of higher education either at the Smithsonian Institution or at the cooperating museum, organization, or institutions;
(3) prepare and distribute significant museum publications;
(4) perform research on, and otherwise contribute to, the development of museum techniques, with emphasis on museum conservation and the development of a national institute for museum conservation;
(5) cooperate with departments and agencies of the Government of the United States operating, assisting, or otherwise concerned with museums; and
(6) report annually to the Congress on progress in these activities.

(b) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Smithsonian institution $1,000,000 each year for fiscal years 1978, 1979, and 1980.

(Pub. L. 89-674, §2, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 953; Pub. L. 91-629, §§1, 2 Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1875; Pub. L. 93-345, §§1, 2, July 12, 1974. 88 Stat. 339; Pub. L. 94-336, July 1, 1976. 90 Stat. 795.)

AMENDMENTS
1976-Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94-336 substituted provisions authorizing the appropriation of $1,000,000 each year for fiscal years 1978, 1979, and 1980, for provisions under which there had been authorized to be appropriated whatever sums as might be necessary to carry out the purposes of the section, with a proviso that no more than $1,000,000 could be appropriated annually through fiscal year 1977, of which no less than $200,000, was to be allocated and used to carry out subsec. (a)(4) of this section.
1974-Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 93-345, §1, inserted ", with emphasis on museum conservation and the development of a national institute for museum conservation" following "museum techniques".
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93-345, §2, substituted provisions limiting to $1,000,000 the amount which may be appropriated annually through fiscal year 1977, with no less than $200,000 annually to be allocated and used to carry out the purposes of subsection (a)(4) of this section for provision limiting to $1,000,000 the amount which could be appropriated annually through fiscal year 1974, of which $300,000 annually had to be allocated and used according to the formula of 33 1/3 per centum for purposes of subsec. (s)(2), 33 1/3 per centum for assistance to museums under section 954(c) of this title, and 33 1/3 per centum for assistance to museums under section 956(c) of this title.
1970-Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 91-629, §2, added the provisions that programs be prepared and carried out by grant, contract, or directly and which authorized the training of career employees in museum practices in cooperation with institutions of higher education, and substituted provisions which authorized training
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programs to be conducted either at the Smithsonian Institution, or at the cooperating museum, organization, or institutions, for provisions which authorized such programs to be conducted at the best locations. 
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 91-629, §1, substituted provisions which authorized to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out the purposes of this section, with no more than $1,000,000 to be appropriated annually through fiscal year 1974, of which $300,000, annually, to be allocated in the enumerated manner, for provisions which authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, not to exceed $200,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, $250,000 for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1969, and June 30, 1970, and $300,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and in each subsequent fiscal year, only such sums as the Congress hereafter authorizes by law.

SHORT TITLE

Pub. L. 89-674, § 1, provided: "That this Act [enacting this section and repealing section 65 of this title] may be cited as the 'National Museum Act of 1966'."

§66. Repealed. June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title VI, §602(a)(19), 63 Stat. 400, eff. July 1, 1949, renumbered Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, §6(a), (b), 64 Stat. 583

Section, act Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 75, §1, 38 Stat. 839, related to exchange of typewriters and adding machines, and is now covered by section 481 of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.

§67. Right of repeal
Congress may alter, amend, add to, or repeal any of the provisions of sections 41 to 46, 48, 50, 51 to 53, and 54 to 57, of this title; but no contract or individual right made or acquired under such provisions shall be thereby divested or impaired.
(R.S. §5594.)

CODIFICATION
R.S. §5594 is from act Aug. 10, 1846, ch. 178, §11, 9 Stat. 106.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in section 57 of this title.

§68. Repealed. Oct. 10, 1940, ch. 851, §4, 54 Stat. 1111

Section, act Feb. 11, 1927, ch. 104, §1, 44 Stat. 1081, related to advertisements for proposals for purchases and services and is now covered by section 5 of Title 41, Public Contracts.

§69. Anthropological researches; cooperation of Institution with States, educational institutions, or scientific organizations

The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution is hereby authorized to cooperate with any State, educational institution, or scientific organization in the United States to continue  independently or in cooperation anthropological researches among the American Indians and the natives of lands under the jurisdiction or protection of the United States and the excavation and preservation of archaeological remains.

(Apr. 10, 1928, ch. 335, §1, 45 Stat. 413; Aug. 22, 1949, ch. 494, §1, 63 Stat. 623.)

AMENDMENTS
1949-Act Aug. 22, 1949, substituted "to continue independently or in cooperation anthropological" for "for continuing ethnological" and inserted "and the natives of lands under the jurisdiction or protection of the United States".
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