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- An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes
An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes
Object Details
- Category
- Smithsonian Legal Documents
- Legal document information
- 36 Stat. 1363
- Title 20, Education
- Public Law
- Citation information
- Statutes at Large
- Summary
- The following sums are appropriated: $32,000 for International exchanges; $42,000 for American ethnology for continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archaeologic remains, including salaries of employees; $7,500 for cooperation in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature; $18,000 for the expenses of the Astrophysical Observatory; $175,000 for cases, furniture, etc. for the National Museum; $50,000 for heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service; $300,000 for preserving collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government; $2,000 for purchase of books, pamphlets and periodicals for reference; $15,000 for repairs to buildings; $500 for postage stamps and foreign postal cards; in all, for the National Museum, $542,500.
- The sum of $100,000 is provided for the National Zoological Park for construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage, improving of grounds, repairing buildings, care of animals, salaries of employees, and purchase of books and periodicals. One half of this sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. The sum of $72,900 is appropriated for printing and binding the annual reports of the Board of Regents, the National Museum, Bureau of American Ethnology, International Exchanges, the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical Observatory, and the American Historical Association.
- Contained within
- 36 Stat. 1363 (1911); ch. 285 (Book)
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Date
- 1911
- 03/04/1911
- Author
- 61st Congress, Sess. 3, 1911
- Subject
- American Historical Association
- Astrophysical Observatory
- Board of Regents
- Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
- International Catalogue of Scientific Literature
- National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- United States National Museum
- Type
- Public Law
- Physical description
- Number of pages: 5; Page Numbers: 1363, 1395-96, 1446-47
- Place
- North America
- Hawaii
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Animals
- Annual Reports
- Expenditures, Public
- Archaeology
- Bookbinding
- Bridges
- Buildings--Repair and reconstruction
- Electricity
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Scientific expeditions
- Finance
- Grounds maintenance
- Heating
- International exchanges
- Lighting
- Museum finance
- Museums--Furniture, equipment, etc
- Observatories
- Officials and employees--Salaries
- Periodicals
- Postage stamps
- Postcard
- Preservation of materials
- Printing
- Roads
- Sewerage
- Surveying
- Telegraph
- Telephone
- Record ID
- siris_sic_4363
- Usage
- Usage conditions apply
