510 ANNUAL. REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



During the fiscal year 37 trust and special receipt funds were 

 handled through the disbursing clerk's "special account." The 

 balance in this account at the beginning of the year, July 1, 1922, 

 was $326,365.36; the receipts during the year were $1,761,470.87; 

 and the disbursements, transfers to the regular account, and refund- 

 ments were $1,674,317.19; leaving a balance of $413,519.04 in the 

 account on June 30, 1923. The transactions in this account required 

 the issuance of 16,957 checks on the Treasurer of the United -States. 



In connection with the regular account of the disbursing clerk, his 

 office examined and paid 204,282 vouchers and pay rolls during the 

 year, requiring the issuance of 383,109 checks on the Treasurer of 

 the United States. The fiscal agents of the Forest Service paid 

 122,638 additional vouchers and pay rolls and issued 213,819 checks 

 on the Treasurer of the United States. 



Of the checks issued by the disbursing clerk, 212 were lost in 

 transit through the mails or by the payees, and were duplicated by 

 his office after bonds of indemnity had been furnished by the payees 

 as required by law and regulation. 



The semimonthly payment of salaries of employees stationed in 

 Washington involved the handling and disbursement of $7,383,436.54 

 in cash. 



During the year 10,795 freight and other accounts were sent to the 

 General Accounting Office for payment. 



PUBLIC MONEYS RECEIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT. 



The department received during the fiscal year 1923, from the 

 sources indicated, the foUowing amounts, which were covered into 

 the Treasury: 



(a) Deposited to the credit of mLscellaneous receipts fund : 



1. Forest reserve fund, from sales of timber, grazing fees, and 



use of forest lands (after deducting from the gross receipts 

 of $5,437,642.32 refundments of excess deposits amount- 

 ing to $101,824.19 and the special fund of $528,569.06 to 

 be used for forest road and trail building in 1924) $4, 807, 249. 07 



2. Forest Service cooperative fund (the receipts of $1,517,467.46 



are shown below under special funds of the Forest Service). 



3. Civil-service retirement deductions 2, 055. 39 



4. Sales of agricultural products, etc 5, 082. 90 



5. Proceeds of sale of Government property 142, 255. 20 



6. Reimbursement for Government property lost 2, 747. 12 



7. Damages to Government property 220. 72 



8. Receipts from United States telegraph and telephone lines. 6, 488. 79 



9. Rent of public buildings, etc 2, 560. 70 



10. Interest on seed-grain loans 82, 806. 83 



11. Reimbursement for inspection of food products 144, 687. 84 



12. Collections in appeals under grain standards act 37, 167. 08 



13. Fees under United States warehouse act 3, 642. 40 



14. Work done by Agricultural Department 29, 017. 15 



15. Fumigation of cars and wagons 55, 372. 00 



16. Surplus war materials 19, 002. 78 



17. Center Market rentals * 124, 244. 32 



18. Center Market storage and other charges 112, 304. 26 



Total deposited to credit of miscellaneous receipts fund 

 (exclusive of Forest Service funds shown immedi- 

 ately below) 5, 576, 904. 55 



