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Code No. Title Amount 



1445 Personal Service: — Salaries, Regular Employees : 



Curator-in-chief [Director] $2,500.00 



Curator 1,000.00 



Janitor 840.00 



Museum guard 480.00 



Total Personal Service $4,820.00 



1446 Expenses 1,969.00 



Departmental Total $6,789.00 



This was in accordance with the recommendations of the subcommittee 

 to eliminate one curator, one museum guard, and the night watchman, and 

 to cut the expense account considerably below our requested appropriation. 

 At the same time, however, the salary of the janitor was raised $120 per 

 annum and that of the one museum guard $30. 



At a public hearing before the Board of Estimate and Apportionment 

 on October 2,^ the president, the director, and Senator Cromwell appeared 

 and the president made a further appeal for the restoration of the posi- 

 tions eliminated. 



The budget as finally adopted on October 31 provided for the support 

 of the museum during the year 1917 as follows :^ , 



Code No. Title Amount 



1445 Personal Service — Salaries, Regular Employees : 



Curator-in-chief [Director] $2,500.00 



Curator 1,000.00 



Janitor 840.00 



Watchman 600.00 



Museum guard 480.00 



Total Personal Service $5,420.00 



1446 Expenses 1,969.00 



Departmental Total $7,389.00 



The position of night watchman was restored, with a salary increase of 

 $80 per annum ; but the other eliminated positions were not. 



Incidentally it may be noted that the appropriation was divided into two 

 subappropriations only, viz., 1445 — salaries, and 1446 — expenses, instead of 

 being divided, as heretofore, under six code numbers. This placed us in 

 the same category as the larger city museums, so far as form of the 

 budget appropriation was concerned. The apportionment of the expense 

 account for the year 1917 is under our o"wn control for the first time. Our 

 bookkeeping is simplified, and any necessity of applying for a transfer 

 from one subappropriation to another is obviated. 



1 See City Record, vol. XLIV, no. 13227, p. 8056, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1916. 



