REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 25 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Alexander Wetmore. 

 Paul Mellon. 



Finance Committee 



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

 Samuel H. Kress, Vice Chairman. 

 Ferdinand Lammot Belin. 

 Paul Mellon. 

 Chester Dale. 



Acquisitions Committee 



Samuel H. Kress, Chairman. 



Ferdinand Lammot Belin, Vice Chairman. 



Duncan Phillips. 



Chester Dale. 



David E. Finley, ex officio. 



The permanent Government positions on the Gallery staff are filled 

 from registers of the United States Civil Service Commission, or with 

 its approval. On June 30, 1947, the permanent Government staff of 

 the Gallery numbered 305 employees, as compared with 298 employees 

 on June 30, 1946. 



Throughout the year a high standard of operation and maintenance 

 of the Gallery building and grounds, and protection of the Gallery's 

 collections of works of art, has been sustained. 



APPROPRIATIONS 



For salaries and expenses for the upkeep and operation of the Na- 

 tional Gallery of Art, the protection and care of works of art acquired 

 by the Board of Trustees, and all administrative expenses incident 

 thereto pursuant to the provisions of section 4 (a) of Public Kesolution 

 No. 14, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, approved March 24, 1937 

 (50 Stat. 51), the Congress appropriated for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1947, the sum of $883,920. This amount included the regular 

 appropriation of $772,490, a supplemental appropriation of $101,000 

 primarily to meet the Gallery's obligations under the Federal Em- 

 ployees Pay Act of 1946, and an additional appropriation of $10,430 

 to make up other deficiencies in the 1947 appropriation caused mainly 

 by the higher salaries paid returning veterans over war service in- 

 cumbents, in-grade promotions, and reallocations of positions by the 

 Civil Service Commission in 1946 and 1947. 



From these appropriations the following expenditures and encum- 

 brances were incurred: 



Personal services $771, 508. 54 



Printing and binding 3, 999. 72 



Supplies, equipment, etc 108,382.23 



Unencumbered balance 29.51 



Total 883,920. 00 



