508 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



of the department for the payment of their expenses while traveUng 

 on official business. 



The division supervises the placing of funds to the official credit 

 of temporary special disbursing agents and other fiscal officers of the 

 department, receives their quarterly disbursing accounts from the 

 respective bureaus after these have completed their administrative 

 examination, makes a record of the accounts and transmits them to 

 the General Accounting Office. It also keeps the departmental 

 record of amounts withheld from employees' salaries under the 

 provisions of the retirement act of May 22, 1920; prepares the 

 central record for classifying the expenditures of the department 

 under the objects of expenditure prescribed by the Comptroller 

 General in Bulletin No. 1 of May 11, 1922; maintains a record of 

 liabilities and disbursements in connection with purchases of lands 

 under the Weeks forestry law, and, under the direction of the Secre- 

 tary and the Budget officer, compiles the annual estimates of appro- 

 priations. In addition to the regular financial statements, special 

 and miscellaneous statements and reports are prepared from time 

 to time as required. 



WORK OF THE YEAR. 



APPROPRIATIONS, EXPENDITURES, UNEXPENDED BALANCES, ETC. 



To carry on the regular work of the Department of Agriculture, 

 consisting of its research, extension, regulatory and service activities, 

 and its campaigns for the control and eradication of animal and plant 

 diseases and pests, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923, Con- 

 gress appropriated or provided $41,158,727.21. In addition, appro- 

 priations and funds amounting to $48,110,890.02 were provided by 

 Congress to be administered by and expended under the direction 

 of the department for work other than its regular activities, such as 

 Federal highway and forest road and trail construction, cooperative 

 agricultural extension work through the State agricultural colleges 

 under the Smith-Lever Act, research work by the State agricultural 

 experiment stations under the Hatch and Adams Acts, and other 

 special activities devolving upon the department by operation of 

 law, making the total for the fiscal year 1923, for all purposes, S89,- 

 269,617.23. This sum includes $36,774,173 carried in the Agri- 

 cultural appropriation act and $52,495,444.23 in supplemental, 

 permanent annual, special and indefinite appropriations and funds, 

 and allotments from other departments, as follows: Supplemental 

 appropriations of $849,980 contained in various deficiency appro- 

 priation acts; the permanent annual appropriations of $3,000,000 

 lor the enforcement of the meat inspection act and $4,580,000 for 

 extension work in agriculture and home economics through the 

 State agricultural colleges; $25,000,000 for the construction of Fed- 

 eral highways in cooperation with the States and $11,000,000 for 

 road and trail building within or adjacent to the national forests; 

 $3,232,863 for payment of the $240 bonus or increase of compensa- 

 tion to the employees of the department; $2,840,072.62 which be- 

 came available from national forest receipts and Forest Service 

 cooperative funds for cooperative work, road and trail construction, 

 refundments of excess deposits, and payments to the States for the 

 benefit of roads and schools; $66,711.21 in fees collected for the classi- 



