 
 CHAPTER 3--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--CHARTER PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 48. Salary and removal of Secretary and assistants

    The Secretary and his assistants shall, respectively, receive for 
their services such sum as may be allowed by the Board of Regents; and 
shall be removable by the Board of Regents whenever, in their judgment, 
the interests of the institution require such removal.

(R.S. Sec. 5584.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5584 derived from act Aug. 10, 1846, ch. 178, Sec. 7, 9 
Stat. 105.
    Provisions which related to semi-annual payments on the first day of 
January and July have been omitted.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 57, 67 of this title.
