Skip to main content  20 USC § 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 e