MAINTENANCE 



BY its original agreement, the City undertook to maintain or pay 

 the running expenses of the Museum, but practically from the 

 beginning the maintenance has been insufficient, as is shown in 

 the preceding pages. The annual increments in maintenance are given 

 in the accompanying table. Successive enabling acts of the Legis- 

 lature have permitted the City authorities to increase the maintenance. 

 The legal limit is now $200,000. The last appropriation (that of 

 1909) was $180,000. In the same year the maintenance of the Metro- 

 politan Museum was raised to the legal limit, $200,000. 



The expenditures of the Museum for maintenance during the past 

 ten years are instructive : 



MAINTENANCE OF MUSEUM BY JOINT EXPENDITURE OF CITY AND TRUSTEES 



Appropriations Appropriations Tv.toi 



by City. by Trustees. 10tal - 



1901 $130,000.00 $17,733.75 $147,733.75 



1902 160,000.00 160,000.00 



1903 160,000.00 7,368.54 167,368.54 



1904 160,000.00 8,158.69 168,158.69 



1905 160,000.00 19,506.41 179,506.41 



1906 170,000.00 2,924.04 172,924.04 



1907 160,000.00 26,828.52 186,828.52 



1908 159,930.62 33,475.97 193,406.59 



1909 180,048.69 226.23 180,274.92 



$1,439,979.31 $116,222.15 $1,556,201.46 



The legitimate charges against maintenance are Administration 

 Salaries, Scientific Administration and the Working Staff, Repairing 

 and Renewal of Parts, and Cleaning, Heating and Lighting of the Build- 

 ing. By law, the Trustees may both care for and prepare specimens 

 from the maintenance fund. In practice, the preparation of the 

 specimens is mainly from the endowment and other funds. 



The Museum is now administered with the utmost economy in 

 every department, both as regards salaries and purchases. A recent 

 investigation by the Director of the cost of our heating and lighting 



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