20 U.S.C. § 41 — Incorporation of institution

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This law creates the Smithsonian Institution to increase and spread knowledge. Its members are the President, Vice President, Chief Justice, and heads of executive departments. It exists permanently, with only the powers this law gives it.

This section is one sentence establishing the Smithsonian Institution. It names the President, the Vice President, the Chief Justice, and the heads of the executive departments as the group — called the Smithsonian Institution — that will run it, for the purpose of increasing and spreading knowledge. The Institution has perpetual succession, meaning it keeps existing over time, and it has only the powers, limits, and restrictions that the rest of this law gives it — no others.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The President, the Vice President, the Chief Justice, and the heads of executive departments are constituted an establishment by the name of the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, and by that name shall be known and have perpetual succession with the powers, limitations, and restrictions hereinafter contained, and no other.

Source credit: (R.S. § 5579; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, 19 Stat. 253; Mar. 12, 1894, ch. 36, 28 Stat. 41.)

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1877Enacted · Act of Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69 · 19 Stat. 253
1894Amended · Act of Mar. 12, 1894, ch. 36 · 28 Stat. 41

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