SECRETARY'S REPORT 173 



FINANCE COMMITTEE 



Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 



George M. Humphrey, Chairman. tion, Dr. Leonard Carmichael. 



Chester Dale, Vice Chairman. Ferdinand Lammot Belin. 



Paul Mellon. 



ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE 



Ferdinand Lammot Belin, Chairman. Paul Mellon. 

 Duncan Phillips. John Walker. 



Chester Dale. 



PERSONNEL 



On June 30, 1957, full-time Government employees on the staff of 

 the National Gallery of Art numbered 313 as compared with 312 as 

 of June 30, 1956. The United States Civil Service regulations gov- 

 ern the appointment of employees paid from appropriated public 

 funds. 



APPROPRIATIONS 



For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1957, the Congress of the United 

 States in the regular annual appropriation for the National Gallery 

 of Art provided $1,505,000 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 administra- 

 tive expenses incident thereto, as authorized by Joint Resolution of 

 Congress approved March 24, 1937 (20 U. S. C. 71-75; 50 Stat. 51). 

 Congress also included in a supplemental appropriation act $30,000 

 to cover (a) the additional cost of steam for heating and air-condi- 

 tioning the Gallery, which cost exceeded the original estimate of 

 General Services Administration by $18,000; (b) the increased cost 

 of electric current ($3,800), and (c) the increase of salaries of em- 

 ployees whose rates of pay were adjusted as of December 2, 1956, by 

 Wage Board determination under authority of Public Law 763, 83d 

 Congress ($8,200). The total appropriation for the fiscal year was 

 $1,535,000. The following expenditures and encumbrances were 

 incurred : 



Personal services (including $413,088.28 for guard protection) $1, 293, 635. 00 



Other than personal services 241, 336. 07 



Unobligated balance 28. 93 



Total l, 535, 000. 00 



ATTENDANCE 



There were 942,196 visitors to the Gallery during the fiscal year 

 1957 as compared to an attendance of 1,013,246 for the fiscal year 1956. 

 The average daily number of visitors was 2,596. 



