Subchapter I - CHARTER PROVISIONS
- Section 41 - Incorporation of institution
- Section 42 - Board of Regents; members
- Section 43 - Appointment of regents; terms of office; vacancies
- Section 44 - Organization of board; expenses; gratuitous services
- Section 45 - Special meetings of members
- Section 46 - Duties of Secretary
- Section 46a - Employment of aliens by Secretary
- Section 47 - Acting Secretary
- Section 48 - Salary and removal of Secretary and assistants
- Section 49 - Omitted
- Section 50 - Reception and arrangement of specimens and objects of art
- Section 50a - Gellatly art collection; estimates of sums needed for preservation and maintenance
- Section 51 - Library
- Section 52 - Evidence of title to site and buildings
- Section 53 - Protection of property
- Section 53a - Authorization of appropriations
- Section 54 - Appropriation of interest
- Section 55 - Acceptance of other sums
- Section 56 - Disposal of unappropriated money
- Section 57 - Disbursements
- Section 58 - Omitted
- Section 59 - Collections of National Ocean Survey, United States Geological Survey, and others deposited in National Museum
- Section 60 - Army articles furnished to National Museum
- Section 61 to 64 - Repealed
- Section 65 - Repealed
- Section 65a - Director of the National Museum
- Section 66 - Repealed
- Section 67 - Right of repeal
- Section 68 - Repealed
- Section 69 - Anthropological researches; cooperation of Institution with States, educational institutions, or scientific organizations
- Section 70 - Authorization of appropriations; cooperative work