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DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



The amouuis received from the sale of card index, publications, 

 and American butter were de^josited in the Treasury to tlie credit of 

 the proper appropriations, as provided by the appropriation act. 

 Other moneys were deposited to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. 



SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS. 



All accounts received and paid during the year were forwarded to 

 the Treasury at the close of each quarter. The accounts for the first 

 three quarters have been settled and certified by the Auditor. Those 

 for the fourth quarter are now in course of settlement. 



ACCOUNTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1898 FINALLY CLOSED. 



The accounts for the year ending June 30, 1898, were finally closed 

 on June 80, 1900, and the balances of the appropriations carried to the 

 surplus fund and turned into the Treasury. The following table shows 

 the approj)riations, disbursements, and unexpended balajices for 1898 

 on July 1, 1900: 



Object. 



Salaries, officers and clerks 



Furniture, cases, and repairs 



Library. 



Museum _ 



Postage - 



Contingent expenses 



Animal quarantine stations 



Collecting agricultural statistics. 



Botanical investigations and experiments 



Entomological investigations 



Vegetable pathological investigations 



Biological investigations. 



Pomological investigations 



Laboratory 



Forestry investigations ._ 



Experimental gardens and grounds 



Soil investigations 



Grass and forage-plant investigations 



Fiber investigations 



Agricultural experiment stations [$755,000] a 



Niitrition investigations. 



Public road inquiries 



Publications, including Farmers' Bulletins 



Investigating ijroduction of domestic sugar 



Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds .- 



Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry 

 Total 



WEATHER BUREAU. 



Salaries 



Fuel, lights, and repairs 



Contingent expenses 



General expenses 



Total, Weather Bureau 



Grand total 



Appropria- 

 tions for 



$319,300.00 



9,000.00 

 7,000.00 

 3,000.00 

 3.000.00 

 25,000.00 

 13,000.00 



110,000.00 



15,000.00 

 20,000.00 



20, 000. 00 



17,500.00 

 8,000.00 



13,400.00 



30, 000. 00 

 35, 000. 00 



10,000.00 



10,000.00 

 5,000.00 



35,000.00 



15,000.00 

 8: 000. 00 



65,000.00 



5,000.00 

 130, 000. 00 



075,000.00 



Amount 

 disbursed. 



1,584,200.00 



$150,540.00 



8,000.00 

 8,000.00 



717,163.00 



883, 703. 00 



2,467,903.00 



S385, 181. 30 



18,963.98 



9,811.02 



7,851.30 



6. 734. 81 

 2.906.03 

 1,500.00 



33,061.73 

 10,897.98 

 93,896.01 



9,031.09 

 14,714.50 

 19, 735. 03 

 18,966.67 

 660.00 

 16,160.90 



7,487.93 



3,913.86 

 900. 00 



6, 718. 71 

 19,831.33 

 34, 937. 31 



9. 199. 82 

 660. 00 



8,877.68 



3, 659. 05 

 39,413.10 



4,935.80 

 14, 873. 88 



7, 978. 44 

 34,966.55 

 39,813.59 



4,941.33 

 131,870.38 

 673, 444. 03 



1,300.00 



1,547,673.09 



148, 839. 31 



799. 61 



7,783.71 



7, 906. 45 



351,449.65 



361,060.73 



877,838.35 



Amount 



unex- 

 pended. 



85,118.70 



37. 03 



188. 98 



1, 148. 70 



305. 19 



93. 98 



1,500.(X) 



3.93S.37 



1,103.03 



7, 103. 99 



978. 91 



285. 50 



264. 98 



373.33 



'"i,"339."i6 



512.07 



86.14 



781.39 



168. 68 



62.69 



140. 18 



1,133.32 



l,;it0.95 



586. 90 



74.20 



127. 12 



21.56 



33.45 



187. 41 



58.68 



8,129.63 



355.98 



36, .527. 91 



900. 79 



.39 



217.39 



93. .55 



745. 35 



3,906.28 



5, 8aS. 65 



2,425,510.44 I 42,391.56 



a Of this amount, $730,000 was paid directly to the experiment stations from the Treasury 

 Department. 



