---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 153904"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "153904"
heading: "Deposit of historical material"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/153904"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 1539 — The National Yeomen (f)"
---

# §153904. Deposit of historical material


The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution may permit the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other material for history in the Smithsonian Institution or in the National Museum, on conditions and under rules they prescribe.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1431.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 153904 | 36:139b. | June 15, 1936, ch. 546, § 3, 49 Stat. 1506; June 29, 1960, Pub. L. 86–533, (23), 74 Stat. 249. |

The word “may” is substituted for “are authorized to” for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words. The words “at their discretion” and “such” are omitted as unnecessary. The words “they prescribe” are substituted for “as they shall prescribe” to eliminate unnecessary words.