 
 CHAPTER 3--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
 
             SUBCHAPTER VIII--PALEONTOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
 
Sec. 78a. Authorization of appropriations; availability of 
        funds; limit on use of funds during fiscal year; supervision; 
        rules and regulations
        
    There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $65,000, which shall be 
available until expended for the above purposes: Provided, That at such 
time as the Smithsonian Institution is satisfied that any State agency, 
or any educational institution or scientific organization in any of the 
United States, is prepared to contribute to such investigation and when 
in its judgment such investigation shall appear meritorious, the 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution may make available for such 
investigation such amounts from this sum as shall be equal to the 
amounts contributed respectively by each such State agency, or 
educational institution or scientific organization: Provided further, 
That the amount to be made available from this sum for such 
investigation in cooperation with each such State agency, or educational 
institution or scientific organization, shall not exceed $10,000 in any 
fiscal year: Provided further, That all such cooperative work and 
division of the result thereof shall be under the direction of the 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution: Provided further, That where 
lands are involved which are controlled by the Government of the United 
States, cooperative work thereon shall be under the provisions of the 
Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 432, 433), and rules and regulations 
pertaining thereto.

(Aug. 15, 1949, ch. 427, Sec. 2, 63 Stat. 606.)
