§ 47. — Acting Secretary.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC47]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 3--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
SUBCHAPTER I--CHARTER PROVISIONS
Sec. 47. Acting Secretary
The chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution may, by an instrument
in writing filed in the office of the Secretary thereof, designate and
appoint a suitable person to act as Secretary of the Institution when
there shall be a vacancy in said office, and whenever the Secretary
shall be unable from illness, absence, or other cause to perform the
duties of his office; and in such case the person so appointed may
perform all the duties imposed on the Secretary by law until the vacancy
shall be filled or such inability shall cease. The said chancellor may
change such designation and appointment from time to time as the
interests of the Institution may in his judgment require.
(May 13, 1884, ch. 44, 23 Stat. 21.)
Prior Provisions
Similar prior provisions were contained in act Jan. 24, 1879, ch.
21, 20 Stat. 264.
