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An Act Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes

Catalog Data

Author:
69th Congress, Sess. 1, 1926  Search this
Subject:
American Historical Association  Search this
Astrophysical Observatory  Search this
Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature  Search this
National Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian  Search this
United States National Museum  Search this
Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Physical description:
Number of pages: 4; Page Numbers: 305, 315-17
Type:
Public Law
Place:
North America
Hawaii
Date:
1927
04/22/1926
Category:
Smithsonian Legal Documents
Legal document information:
44 Stat. 305
Title 20, Education
Public Law
Citation information:
Statutes at Large
Summary:
The following sums are appropriated: $46,260 for the system of international exchanges; $57,160 for continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii and for the excavation and preservation of archaeologic remains; $7.500 for the cooperation of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature; $31,180 for maintenance of the Astrophysical Observatory; $6,000 for an additional Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; $23,730 for furniture, etc. for the National Museum; $78,140 for heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service and traveling expenses; and $450,000 for continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the survey and exploring expeditions of the Government.
Also $12,000 for repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds; $1,500 for purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference; $450 for postage stamps and foreign postal cards; $29,381 for the administration of the National Gallery of Art; $90,000 for all printing and binding for the Smithsonian Institution, of which $7,000 shall be available for printing the report of the American Historical Association.
Contained within:
44 Stat. 305 (1926); ch. 171 (Book)
Contact information:
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Expenditures, Public  Search this
Archaeology  Search this
Art museums  Search this
Bookbinding  Search this
Books  Search this
Buildings--Repair and reconstruction  Search this
Electricity  Search this
Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this
Exhibitions  Search this
Scientific expeditions  Search this
Finance  Search this
Heating  Search this
International exchanges  Search this
Lighting  Search this
Museum finance  Search this
Museum publications  Search this
Museums--Furniture, equipment, etc  Search this
Periodicals  Search this
Postage stamps  Search this
Postcard  Search this
Preservation of materials  Search this
Printing  Search this
Research  Search this
Sheds  Search this
Surveying  Search this
Telegraph  Search this
Telephone  Search this
Travel  Search this
Publisher:
Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_4336