The net expenditures of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1897, were therefore $51,933.28, or $6,128.71 less than the gross expenditures, $58,061.99, as above stated.

All moneys received by the Smithsonian Institution from interest, sales, refunding of moneys temporarily advanced, or otherwise, are deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the Secretary of the Institution, and all payments are made by his checks on the Treasurer of the United States.

Your committee also presents the following statements in regard to appropriations and expenditures for objects intrusted by Congress to the care of the Smithsonian Institution:

Detailed statement of disbursements from appropriations committed by Congress to the care of the Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, and from balances of former years.

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES.

Receipts.

Appropriated by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, "for expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees" (sundry civil act, June 11, 1896)...

Disbursements from July 1, 1896, to June 30, 1897.

Salaries or compensation:

1 curator, 24 months 5 days, at $225.

1 curator, 6 months, at $225...

1 chief clerk, 5 months, at $175

(7 months, at $150

1 clerk, 12 months, at $130.

1 clerk, 12 months, at $100.

$600.00

1,350.00

1,050.00

875.00

$19,000.00

1,560. 00

1,200.00

Balance carried, under the provisions of the Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Department to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1897.

NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, 1897.

Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, “for continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $45,000, of which sum not exceed ing $1,000 may be used for rent of building" (sundry civil act, June 11, 1896)

The actual conduct of these investigations has been continued by the Secretary in the hands of Maj. J. W. Powell, Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Disbursements July 1, 1896, to June 30, 1897.

$45,000.00

NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, 1895.

Balance July 1, 1896, as per last report

$100.08

Balance carried, under the provisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Department to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1897.

NATIONAL MUSEUM.

PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS, JULY 1, 1896, TO JUNE 30, 1897.

Receipts.

"for

Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, “ continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees" (sundry civil act, June 11, 1896)

$153, 225.00

1 Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the National Museum, 2 months, at $333.34

$666.68

$2,775.00

1,864.83

7,200.00

2, 309.68

2,100.00

1,675.00

1,800.00

1,560.00

344.76

1,500.00

1,299.96

1 preparator, 12 months, at $50

1 preparator, 30 days, at $3.20 ..

1 preparator, 1 month 5 days, at $50 1 preparator, 12 months, at $80 ..

1 preparator, 9 months 24 days, at $60 preparator, 10 months 21 days, at $80

1 preparator, 12 months, at $45. 1 preparator, 12 months, at $110

1 preparator, 12 months, at $80 1 preparator, 12 months, at $45 1 preparator, 12 months, at $50

1 taxidermist, 12 months, at $60

1 taxidermist, 12 months, at $90

600.00

96.00

58.06

960.00

589.29

854. 19

540.00

1, 320.00

960.00

540.00

600.00

720.00

1,080.00