An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, and for other purposes

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Summary

  • The sum of $10,900,000 is appropriated for salaries and expenses of the Smithsonian Institution including: preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government; international exchanges; anthropological researches among the American Indians and the natives of lands under the jurisdiction or protection of the United States; excavation and preservation of archeological remains; maintenance of the Astrophysical Observatory; administration of the National Collection of Fine Arts and the National Portrait Gallery; administration, construction, and maintenance of laboratory and other facilities on Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone; maintenance and administration of a national air museum; and expenses of the National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board.
  • Also purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards and elevator operators; repairs and alterations of buildings; and preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations for publications. The sum of $1,275,000 is provided for expenses of planning, construction, remodeling, and equipping of buildings and facilities at the National Zoological Park.
  • The sum of $2,054,000 is appropriated for the upkeep and operation of the National Gallery of Art including: payment in advance when authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for membership in library, museum, and art associations or societies whose publication or services are available to members only, or to members at a price lower than to the general public; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards and elevator operators; purchase or rental of devices and services for protecting buildings and contents; maintenance and repair of buildings and grounds; and restoration and repair of works of art for the National Gallery of Art.

Subject

  • Astrophysical Observatory
  • National Air and Space Museum
  • National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board (NAFMAB)
  • National Collection of Fine Arts
  • National Portrait Gallery (U.S.)
  • National Zoological Park (U.S.)
  • 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

  • 76 Stat. 335
  • Title 20, Education
  • Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

76 Stat. 335 (1962); Pub. L. No. 87-578 (Book)

Contact information

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

Date

  • 1963
  • 08/09/1962

Topic

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

Place

  • Barro Colorado Nature Monument (Panama)
  • North America

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 3; Page Numbers: 335, 350-51

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