DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. 573 



MONTHLY CHECK STATEMENTS. 



The check statements submitted by the Treasury and subtreasuries 

 were compared with the checks issued by this Division, and the 

 amounts verified. 



ANNUAL SUPPLIES. 



Awards for all ordinar}' annual supplies for the use of this Depart- 

 ment during the fiscal year 1910 were made by the General Supply 

 Committee of the Executive Departments, and it was therefore neces- 

 sary for the Department of Agriculture to advertise independently 

 for only those supplies of a teclinical character which are used by 

 this Department exclusively, and which, for that reason, were design- 

 edly omitted from the general schedule. The awards made for these 

 technical supplies were, as heretofore, based upon bids received 

 through advertisement in the columns of the daily newspapers in the 

 large cities and special mail notifications to all of the well-known 

 dealers in the wares required, the bids, when received, being sub- 

 mitted to and ])assed upon b}^ a board of award acting under the 

 instructions and by the autliority of the Secretary. Although sup- 

 plies aggregating an amount less than $50 may, under the act of 

 March 1, 1899, be purchased in the open market, all supplies, as far 

 as practicable, were regularly advertised for either directly by the 

 Department or through the General Supply Committee. 



PUBLIC MONEYS RECEIVED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. 



There were received from various sources and deposited in the 

 Treasury to the credit of the proper funds the following sums: 



Miscellaneous receipts, sales of condemned property, etc $10, 493. 23 



Telegraph-line receipts, Weather Bureau 1, 710. 66 



Sales of products, agricultural station, Hawaii 33. 40 



Sales of products, agricultural station, Porto Rico 1, 706. 56 



Sales of products, agricultural station, Alaska 866. 42 



Sales of products, agricultural station, Guam 17. 41 



Total 14, 827. 68 



In this connection it is thought desirable to explain the method 

 pursued in receiving and disposing of the moneys pertaining to the 

 several funds. 



The proceeds of "condemned property," "librar}'' index cards," 

 and "card index of agricultural literature " prepared by the Office of 

 Experiment Stations are covered into the Treasury to the crocUt of 

 "Miscefianeous receipts," under section 3618 of the Revised Statutes. 



Moneys derived from the sales of j^roducts at the insular stations 

 in Hawaii, Porto Rico, Alaska, and Guam are used for the mainte- 

 nance of those stations. 



Up to June 30, 1907, the moneys derived from the sales of "publi- 

 cations" issued l)y the Weather Bureau were dei)Osited in the Treas- 

 ury' to the credit of the appropriation "General expenses" of that 

 Bureau, imder section 227 of the Revised vStatutes. Since July 1, 

 1907, these moneys have been deposited to "Miscellaneous receipts," 

 in accordance with the provision in the act making ai)pro|)riatiou9 

 for this Department for the fiscal year endhig June 30, 1908. (34 

 Stat. L., 1258.) 



