ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY, NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 1895 AND 1896. Balance July 1, 1896, as per last report $95.49 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. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 1895. Balance July 1, 1896, as per last report $2.48 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. RECAPITULATION. The total amount of funds administered by the Institution during the year ending June 30, 1897, appears, from the foregoing statements and the account books, to have been as follows: Smithsonian Institution. From balance of last year, July 1, 1896..... From interest on Smithsonian fund for the year. From sales of publications... From repayments of freight, etc Interest on West Shore bonds... $57, 065.78 10,000.00 54,720.00 460.95 5,667.76 1,680.00 $119, 594.49 The committee has examined the vouchers for payment from the Smithsonian income during the year ending June 30, 1897, each of which bears the approval of the secretary or, in his absence, of the acting secretary, and a certificate that the materials and services charged were applied to the purposes of the Institution. The committee has also examined the accounts of the several appropriations committed by Congress to the Institution, and finds that the balances hereinbefore given correspond with the certificates of the disbursing clerk of the Smithsonian Institution, whose appointment as such disbursing officer has been accepted and his bond approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. The quarterly accounts current, the vouchers, and journals have been examined and found correct. Statement of regular income from the Smithsonian fund available for use in the year ending June 30, 1898. Interest, West Shore Railroad bonds, due July 1, 1897... Total available for year ending June 30, 1898. Respectfully submitted. WASHINGTON, D. C., January 10, 1898. 10,000.00 27, 360.00 840.00 56, 400.00 117, 932.50 J. B. HENDERSON, Executive Committee. ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. (In continuation from previous reports.) [Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, and Fifty-fifth Congress, first session.] INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. International exchanges.-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, nineteen thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 4, 1897, statutes of Fifty-fifth Congress, first session, p. 22.) To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "International exchanges, Smithsonian Institution," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one dollar and seventy-nine cents. (Deficiency appropriation act, approved July 19, 1897, statutes of Fifty-fifth Congress, first session, p. 115.) NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Museum.-For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including fifteen thousand dollars for furnishing new galleries and including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, thirty thousand dollars. For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum, fourteen thousand dollars. For 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, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, of which sum three thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including all necessary labor and material, four thousand dollars. For rent of workshops for the National Museum, two thousand dollars. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars. |
