An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commission, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes

Summary

• The sum of $2,391,200 is appropriated for salaries and expenses for the Smithsonian Institution including: necessary expenses for the preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government and from other sources; for the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries; for anthropological researches among the American Indians and the excavation and preservation of archeological remains; for maintenance of the Astrophysical Observatory; for the administration of the National Collection of Fine Arts; for the administration and for the construction and maintenance of laboratory and other facilities on Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone; and for the maintenance and administration of a national air museum.
• Also for purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards and elevator conductors; repairs and alterations of buildings and approaches; and preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations for publications. The sum of $1,154,000 is appropriated for salaries and expenses of the National Gallery of Art including: the upkeep and operation of the National Gallery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art therein; payment in advance when authorized for membership in library, museum, art associations or societies whose publications or services are available to members only; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards and elevator operators; purchase or rental of devices and services for protecting buildings and contents thereof; maintenance and repair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; and not to exceed $15,000 for restoration and repair of works of art.

Subject

• Astrophysical Observatory
• National Collection of Fine Arts
• National Air and Space Museum
• United States National Museum
• International Exchange Service (IES)
• Smithsonian American Art Museum
• National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

• 65 Stat. 268
• Title 20, Education
• Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

65 Stat. 268 (1951); ch. 376 (Book)

Contact information

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

Date

• 1952
• 08/31/1951

Topic

• Scientific expeditions
• Architecture
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Finance
• Officials and employees
• Ethnology
• Museums
• Surveying
• Grounds maintenance
• Manuscripts
• Uniforms
• Archaeology
• International exchanges
• Museum finance
• Preservation of materials
• Repair and reconstruction
• Membership
• Expenditures, Public
• Construction (Buildings)
• Associations, institutions, etc
• Protection
• Salaries
• Barro Colorado Island (Panama)
• Watchmen
• Associations, institutions, etc--Membership
• Buildings--Protection
• Buildings--Repair and reconstruction
• Officials and employees--Salaries
• Museum publications

Place

• Barro Colorado Nature Monument (Panama)
• North America

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 3; Page Numbers: 268, 279-80

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