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Legend of Weeping Water (Cass Co.*) |
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Entered as second class matter February 4, 1918, at the Post
Office,
Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act August 24, 1912..
Made a State Institution February 27, 1883.
An act of the Nebraska legislature, recommended
by Govenor James W. Dawes in his inaugural and signed by him, made
the State Historical Society a State institution in the
following:
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Nebraska:
Section 1. That the "Nebraska State Historical
Society," an organization now in existence--Robt. W. Furnas,
President; James M. Woolworth and Elmer S. Dundy, Vice-Presidents;
Samuel Aughey, Secretary, and W. W. Wilson, Treasurer, their
associates and successors-be, and the same is hereby recognized as
a state institution.
Section 2. That it shall be the duty of the
President and Secretary of said institution to make annually
reports to the governor, as required by other state institutions.
Said report to embrace the transactions and expenditures of the
organization, together with all historical addresses, which have
beer, or may hereafter be read before the Society or furnished it
as historical matter, data of the state or adjacent western
regions of country.
Section 3. That said reports, addresses, and
papers shall be published at the expense of the state, and
distributed as other similar official reports, a reasonable
number, to be decided by the state and Society, to be furnished
said Society for its use and distribution.
Property and Equipment
The present State Historial Society owns in fee
simple title as trustee of the State the half block of land
opposite and east of the State House with the basement thereon. It
occupies for offices and working quarters basement rooms in the
University Library building at 11th and R streets. The basement
building at 16th and H is crowded with the collections of the
Historical Society which it can not exhibit, including some 15,000
volumes of Nebraska newspapers and a large part of its museum. Its
rooms in the University Library building are likewise crowded with
library and museum material. The annual inventory of its property
returned to the State Auditor for the year 1920 is as follows:
Value of Land, 1/2 block 16th and H |
$75,000 |
Value of Buildings and permanent improvements |
35,000 |
Value of Furniture and Furnishings |
5,000 |
Value of Special Equipment, including Apparatus, |
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Machinery and Tools |
1,000 |
Educational Specimens (Art, Museum, or other) |
74,800 |
Library (Books and Publications) |
75,000 |
Newspaper Collection |
52,395 |
Total Resources |
$318,195 |
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