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# 20 U.S.C. § 80d - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Smithsonian Institution such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 87–186, § 5, Aug. 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 415.)