1
The first appropriation for schools was twenty-two pounds eight shillings, in 1762.
2
This was the first appropriation ever made by Mississippi for a World's Fair.
3
The first appropriation for an American ephemeris and nautical almanac was made by Congress in 1849.
4
The first appropriation of $10,000,000, out of the $135,000,000 authorized by the Spooner act, was made three years ago.
5
The first appropriation received was from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company and was for the sum of $3,000 for incidental expenses.
6
On January 20, 1907, the the first appropriation made for the cost was $25,000 from the State and $10,000 from the Town.
7
In 1839 Congress made its first appropriation for agricultural purposes, $1000, to be spent in gathering information about crops and other agricultural matters.
8
The public building at Dallas, for which a first appropriation of $75,000 was made in 1882, subsequently increased to $125,000, was only completed in 1889.
9
"The first appropriation the next legislature makes," he soliloquized, "will have to be money enough to build a new wing on the insane-hospital.