An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes
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- The following sums are appropriated: $46,260 for international exchanges, including employees and purchase of books and periodicals; $57,160 for continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archaeologic remains; $8,000 for the International Catalogue of Scientific literature; $31,180 for maintenance of the Astrophysical Observatory; and $6,000 for an additional Assistant Secretary.
- These sums are provided for the National Museum: $21,800 for cases, furniture, etc.; $77,560 for heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service; $441,082 for continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government; $12,000 for repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds; $1,500 for purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference; and $450 for postage stamps and foreign postal cards. In all, National Museum, $554,392. The sum of $21,028 is appropriated for the administration of the National Gallery of Art by the Smithsonian Institution. The sum of $90,000 is provided for all printing and binding including the report of the American Historical Association.
Subject
- American Historical Association
- Astrophysical Observatory
- Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
- International Exchange Service (IES)
- International Catalogue of Scientific Literature
- National Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian
- United States National Museum
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
Category
Smithsonian Legal Documents
Legal document information
- 43 Stat. 1198
- Title 20, Education
- Public Law
Citation information
Statutes at Large
Contained within
43 Stat. 1198 (1925); ch. 468 (Book)
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
- 1925
- 03/03/1925
Topic
- Scientific expeditions
- Books and reading
- Postage stamps
- Telephone
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Postcard
- Archaeology
- Electricity
- Lighting
- Expenditures, Public
- Salaries
- Sheds
- Printing
- Telegraph
- Architecture
- Finance
- Officials and employees
- Ethnology
- Museums
- Surveying
- International exchanges
- Museum finance
- Heating
- Preservation of materials
- Furniture, equipment, etc
- Annual Reports
- Bookbinding
- Repair and reconstruction
- Periodicals
- Books
- Buildings--Repair and reconstruction
- Museums--Furniture, equipment, etc
- Officials and employees--Salaries
Place
- Hawaii
- North America
Form/Genre
Public Law
Physical description
Number of pages: 3; Page Numbers: 1198, 1206-07