26 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1951 



FINANCE COMMITTEE 



Secretary of the Treasury, ex officio, Jolm W. Snyder, Chairman. 

 Samuel H. Kress, Vice Chairman. 

 Ferdinand Lommot Belin. 

 Chester Dale. 

 Paul Mellon. 



ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE 



Samuel H. Kress, Chairman. 



Ferdinand Lammot Belin, Vice Chairman, 



Duncan Phillips. 



Chester Dale. 



David E. Finley, ex officio. 



On June 30, 1951, the Government employees on the staff of the 

 National Gallery of Art numbered 308, which is the same number 

 as on June 30, 1950. The United States Civil Service regulations 

 govern the appointment of employees paid from appropriated public 

 funds. 



APPROPRIATIONS 



For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1951, the Congress of the United 

 States appropriated for the National Gallery of Art the sum of 

 $1,179,000 to be used for salaries and expenses in the operation and 

 upkeep of the Gallery, the protection and care of works of art acquired 

 by the Board of Trustees, and all administrative expenses incident 

 thereto as authorized by section 4 (a) of Public Resolution No. 14, 

 Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, approved March 24, 1937 (50 

 Stat. 51). Of this appropriation $25,000 was reserved under section 

 1214 of the General Appropriation Act 1951, Public Law No. 759, 

 Eighty-first Congress, approved September 6, 1950, by the terms of 

 which the Bureau of the Budget was required to save a total of 

 $550,000,000 from the funds included in the general appropriation 

 bill for the fiscal year 1951. Of the available balance of $1,154,000 

 the following expenditures and encumbrances were incurred : 



Personal services $1,004,628.36 



Printing and reproduction 8,335.41 



Supplies, equipment, etc 140,976.59 



Unobligated balance 59.64 



Total _ 1,154,000.00 



In the fiscal year 1950, the National Capital Sesquicentennial Com- 

 mission transferred $25,000 to the Gallery to be used for expenses in- 

 curred in connection with the "Makers of History in Washington, 

 1800-1950" exhibition which ran for the period from June 29, 1950, to 

 November 19, 1950. A total of $23,868.94 was spent on the exhibition, 

 and the balance of $1,131.06 was returned to the United States Treas- 



