DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. 



569 



TEMPORARY SPECIAL DISBURSING AGENTS. 



Thirty-five temporary special disbursing agents and nine district 

 fiscal agents were active during the year, and the sum of $4,867,427.15 

 from the appropriations of tlie Department was advanced to them, 

 requiring the issuance of 264 requisitions upon the Treasury. The 

 total number of temporary special disbursing agents and district 

 fiscal agents shown int-ludes 22 and 9, respectively, for Forest Service, 

 to whom $4,736,079.81 was advanced, requiring 190 requisitions upon 

 the Treasury. All accounts of temporary special disDursing agents 

 of the Department were given an administrative examination in this 



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Division before being forwarded to the Treasury Department for final 

 audit and settlement. 



MILEAGE BOOKS. 



During the fiscal year 525 mileage books were purchased for 

 official use by employees of this Department, at a cost of $20,096, 

 Rebates on these books, amounting to $3,216.30, were deposited in 

 the Treasury to the credit of the appropriations. 



COMBINED ACCOUNTS. 



There were 4,828 combined accounts handled during the fiscal year 

 1910, and it is estimated that the preparation of at least 24,140 

 checks was thereby avoided, to say nothing of the saving in clerical 

 labor. 



APPROPRIATIONS, DISBURSEMENTS, AND UNEXPENDED BALANCES FOR 



THE FISCAL YEAR 1910. 



The table follo^v^ng shows for the fiscal year the amounts appro- 

 priated, disbursed, and unexpended: 



Appropriations, disbursements, and unexpended balances for the fiscal year 1910. 



Object. 



Salaries, Department of ARriciiiture 

 (not incliulinK Forest Service and 



Weather Bureau) 



Officers and clerks 



Extra labor 



Contingent expenses, Department 



of Agriculture 



Library, Depart ment of .\griculture. 



Paper tests, I9in 



.Vllotted to Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry 



Allotted to Forest Service 



Buildings, Department of Agricul- 

 ture ($1 ,500,000), balance available 



July 1, l!)0(t 



Paper tests ($10,000), balance avail- 

 able July 1, 1909 



Subap- 



propna- 



tions. 



$1,058,760 

 7,600 



5,000 

 5,000 



Transfer of 

 funds. a 



$439. 25 

 9,500.75 



Total 

 amoimt ap- 

 propriated. 



Amount dis- 

 bursed. 



$1,066,300.00 



80,000.00 

 16.500.00 

 10.000.00 



1,251.10 

 2,527.48 



$1,042,656.04 



1,035,357.00 



7, 299. 04 



70, 360. 29 



11.915.02 



9,829.16 



439.25 

 9,389.91 



968.40 

 2,437.36 



Balance 

 of appro- 

 priation 

 OD hand. 



$23,703.96 



23,403.00 



300.96 



9,639.71 



4,581.98 



170. 84 



170.84 



282.70 

 90.12 



a And not to exceed 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts for the mi.scellaneous expenses of the work 

 of any bureau, division, or olfice herein provided for shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on 

 the objects included within the general expenses of such hiircau, division, or oHice, biit no more than 10 

 per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation excei)t in cases of extraordinary emergency, 

 and then only upon the written order of the Secretary of Agriculture. 



