36 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1946 
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, 1946, the permanent Government staff of 
the Gallery numbered 298 employees, as compared with 245 employees 
on June 30, 1945; the increase of 53 employees is due chiefly to Public 
Law 106 (Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945) which placed Govern- 
ment operations on a 40-hour week. 
During the past year 21 veterans returned to duty on the Gallery 
staff, having obtained discharges from the armed forces. 
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 
National 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 
Resolution No. 14, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, approved 
March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), the Congress appropriated for the fiscal 
year ended June 30, 1946, the sum of $783,707. This amount includes 
the regular appropriation of $583,207, and two supplemental appropri- 
ations, one in the sum of $184,500 required to meet increased pay costs 
authorized by Public Law 106 (Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945), 
and the other in the sum of $16,000, required to cover the costs of 
within-grade promotions, reallocation of positions, returning vet- 
erans, and terminal leave. 
