An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1939, and June 30, 1940, and for other purposes

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Summary

The sum of $270,000 is appropriated for changing the electric system of the Smithsonian group of buildings in the District of Columbia from direct current to alternating current, including feeders, switches, transformer vaults, switchboards, panel boards, motors, and other requisite equipment.

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • 53 Stat. 1301
  • Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works
  • Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

53 Stat. 1301 (1939); ch. 633 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

  • 1939
  • 08/09/1939

Topic

  • Electric apparatus and appliances
  • Electric circuits
  • Electricity
  • Direct current
  • Electric switchgear
  • Motors
  • Electric machinery
  • Electric circuits--Direct current
  • Electric transformers

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 3; Page Numbers: 1301, 1306-07

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