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Smithsonian Institution 1303 [[Two Columned Table]] Maintenance and operation of buildings (personal services--3additional - $9,025, alterations and improvements - $177,953, equipment replacements $5,760) | $192,738 Service Divisions (typewriter replacements, $8,000, steel shelving $6,500) | $14,500 Total increase, regular appropriation - | $424,000 These increases have been approved by the President in recognition of our present needs in operation. A new estimate of appropriation for paleontological investigations has been approved to carry out the provisions of Public Law 228, "To provide for cooperation by the Smithsonian Institution with state, educational and scientific organizations in the United States for continuing paleontological investigations in areas which will be flooded by the construction of Government dams." | $65,000 Additional operating funds from Federal Appropriations for 1950: Working Funds: River Basin Surveys involving archeological and paleontological work (Transfer from Department of the Interior) | $215,936 Carried over from previous years | $41,436 Total | $257,372 Natural history survey at Bikini Atoll (carried over from previous years) | $4,334 Institute of Social Anthropology (Transfer from Department of State) | $82,510 Total Working Funds | $344,216 National Zoological Park (carried in the appropriation bill for the District of Columbia) Appropriated, Fiscal Year 1950 | $555,900 Estimate for 1951 | $581,000 Increase | $25,000 A.W.