An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes

Summary

• The sum of $386,260 is appropriated for: administrative expenses; international exchanges; continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii and the excavation and preservation of archaeologic remains; maintenance of the Astrophysical Observatory; cases, furniture, etc. for the exhibition and safekeeping of collections; administration of the National Collection of Fine Arts; purchase of books of reference and periodicals, traveling expenses; uniforms for guards, supplies and equipment, preparation of manuscripts; supplying of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephone service; repairs and alterations of buildings, shops, and sheds.
• The sum of $627,470 is provided for: continuing preservation and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the National Museum; purchasing and supplying uniforms for guards and elevator conductors; postage stamps and foreign postal cards; preparation of manuscripts; and purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals. The sum of $73,000 is appropriated for all printing and binding, including the report of the American Historical Association.
• The sum of $300,000 is appropriated for the salaries and expenses of the National Gallery of Art. Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, the civil service laws or the Classification Act of 1923, is amended (42 Stat. 1488, 5 U. S. C. sec. 661-674) shall not apply to the restoration and repair of works of art for the National Gallery of Art. Total, Smithsonian Institution, $1,386,730, of which amount not to exceed $1,055,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.

Author

76th Congress, Sess. 3, 1940

Subject

• American Historical Association
• Astrophysical Observatory
• Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
• International Exchange Service (IES)
• National Collection of Fine Arts
• United States National Museum
• Smithsonian American Art Museum
• National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

• 54 Stat. 111
• Title 20, Education
• Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Notes

Reference is made to the Classification Act of 1923, 42 Stat. 1488, 5 U. S. C. sec.661-674

Contained within

54 Stat. 111 (1940); ch. 107 (Book)

Contact information

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

Date

• 1941
• 04/18/1940

Topic

• Printing
• Telephone
• Museums
• Lighting
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Telegraph
• Electricity
• Scientific expeditions
• Books and reading
• Surveying
• Uniforms
• Repair and reconstruction
• Furniture, equipment, etc
• Sheds
• Finance
• International exchanges
• Postcard
• Ethnology
• Annual Reports
• Buildings
• Watchmen
• Museum stores
• National Collections
• Preservation of materials
• Postage stamps
• Bookbinding
• Heating
• Expenditures, Public
• Periodicals
• Archaeology
• Museum finance
• Books
• Buildings--Repair and reconstruction
• Museums--Furniture, equipment, etc

Place

• North America
• Hawaii
• Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 4; Page Numbers: 111-12, 136-37

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