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An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes

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Author:
52d Congresss, Sess. 2, 1893  Search this
Subject:
Astrophysical Observatory  Search this
Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this
United States National Museum  Search this
Physical description:
Number of pages: 4; Page Numbers: 572, 581-82, 611
Type:
Public Law
Place:
North America
Date:
1893
03/03/1893
Category:
Smithsonian Legal Documents
Legal document information:
27 Stat. 572
Title 20, Education
Public Law
Citation information:
Statutes at Large
Summary:
The following sums are appropriated: $132,500 for preserving collections at the National Museum; $10,000 for cases, furniture, and fixtures for the exhibition of collections; $11,000 for heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service; $500 for postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum; $50,000 for continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, drainage, and for improving the grounds of the National Zoological Park, including salaries of employees; $9,000 for maintenance of the astrophysical observatory; $14,500 for expenses of the system of international exchanges; $40,000 for continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians; $12,000 for printing labels and blanks and for the annual volumes of the "Proceedings" of the National Museum.
For completing the repairs upon the Smithsonian building, any unexpended balance remaining to the credit of the appropriation for fireproofing, and so forth, shall be available.
Contained within:
27 Stat. 572 (1893); ch. 208 (Book)
Contact information:
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Topic:
Annual Reports  Search this
Expenditures, Public  Search this
Bridges  Search this
Buildings--Repair and reconstruction  Search this
Electricity  Search this
Exhibitions  Search this
Finance  Search this
Grounds maintenance  Search this
Heating  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
International exchanges  Search this
Lighting  Search this
Museum finance  Search this
Museums--Furniture, equipment, etc  Search this
Officials and employees--Salaries  Search this
Pavements  Search this
Preservation of materials  Search this
Roads  Search this
Sewerage  Search this
Telephone  Search this
Telegraph  Search this
Publisher:
Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_4272