---
kind: "unit"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
key: "ch3/schI"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter I"
heading: "Charter Provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/ch3-schI"
sections_count: 31
---

# Subchapter I — Charter Provisions

Title 20 — Education › Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries

## Sections

- [§41. Incorporation of institution](/usc/20/41.md)
- [§42. Board of Regents; members](/usc/20/42.md)
- [§43. Appointment of regents; terms of office; vacancies](/usc/20/43.md)
- [§44. Organization of board; expenses; gratuitous services](/usc/20/44.md)
- [§45. Special meetings of members](/usc/20/45.md)
- [§46. Duties of Secretary](/usc/20/46.md)
- [§46a. Employment of aliens by Secretary](/usc/20/46a.md)
- [§47. Acting Secretary](/usc/20/47.md)
- [§48. Salary and removal of Secretary and assistants](/usc/20/48.md)
- [§49. Omitted](/usc/20/49.md)
- [§50. Reception and arrangement of specimens and objects of art](/usc/20/50.md)
- [§50a. Gellatly art collection; estimates of sums needed for preservation and maintenance](/usc/20/50a.md)
- [§51. Library](/usc/20/51.md)
- [§52. Evidence of title to site and buildings](/usc/20/52.md)
- [§53. Protection of property](/usc/20/53.md)
- [§53a. Authorization of appropriations](/usc/20/53a.md)
- [§54. Appropriation of interest](/usc/20/54.md)
- [§55. Acceptance of other sums](/usc/20/55.md)
- [§56. Disposal of unappropriated money](/usc/20/56.md)
- [§57. Disbursements](/usc/20/57.md)
- [§58. Omitted](/usc/20/58.md)
- [§59. Collections of National Ocean Survey, United States Geological Survey, and others deposited in National Museum](/usc/20/59.md)
- [§60. Army articles furnished to National Museum](/usc/20/60.md)
- [§61...64. Repealed.](/usc/20/61...64.md)
- [§65. Repealed.](/usc/20/65.md)
- [§65a. Director of the National Museum](/usc/20/65a.md)
- [§66. Repealed.](/usc/20/66.md)
- [§67. Right of repeal](/usc/20/67.md)
- [§68. Repealed.](/usc/20/68.md)
- [§69. Anthropological researches; cooperation of Institution with States, educational institutions, or scientific organizations](/usc/20/69.md)
- [§70. Authorization of appropriations; cooperative work](/usc/20/70.md)