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Smithsonian Institution     1303

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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

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