An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes
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- The following sums are appropriated: $32,000 for international exchanges; $42,000 for American ethnology for continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, including salaries of all employees; $7,500 for the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature; $13,000 for the Astrophysical Observatory; $125,000 for cases, furniture, fixtures, etc. for the National Museum; $50,000 for the expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service; $300,000 for the preservation and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government; $2,000 for purchase of books, pamphlets, etc.; $15,000 for repairs to buildings; $500 for postage stamps and foreign postal cards; in all, for the National Museum, $492,500; and $10,000 for constructing and installing elevators in the Smithsonian building.
- Also $100,000 for the expenses of the National Zoological Park; and $15,000 for reconstructing and repairing roadways and walks for the National Zoological Park. The sum of $72,700 is provided for the printing and binding of the annual reports and publications of the Board of Regents, the National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the International Exchanges, the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical Observatory, and the American Historical Association.
Subject
- American Historical Association
- Astrophysical Observatory
- Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
- Board of Regents
- International Catalogue of Scientific Literature
- National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- United States National Museum
Category
Smithsonian Legal Documents
Legal document information
- 36 Stat. 703
- Title 20, Education
- Public Law
Citation information
Statutes at Large
Contained within
36 Stat. 703 (1910); ch. 384 (Book)
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
- 1911
- 06/25/1910
Topic
- Scientific expeditions
- Books and reading
- Postage stamps
- Roads
- Telephone
- Elevators
- Postcard
- Electricity
- Lighting
- Expenditures, Public
- Salaries
- Printing
- Telegraph
- Architecture
- Finance
- Officials and employees
- Ethnology
- Museums
- Surveying
- International exchanges
- Museum finance
- Observatories
- Heating
- Preservation of materials
- Furniture, equipment, etc
- Annual Reports
- Bookbinding
- Repair and reconstruction
- Exhibitions
- Books
- Buildings--Repair and reconstruction
- Museums--Furniture, equipment, etc
- Officials and employees--Salaries
Place
North America
Form/Genre
Public Law
Physical description
Number of pages: 5; Page Numbers: 703, 718-19, 768-69