DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBUESEMENTS. 



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to whom $6,025,884.03 was advanced, requiring 136 requisitions upon 

 the Treasury. All accounts of temporary special disbursing agents 

 and district fiscal agents of the department were given an adminis- 

 trative examination in this division before being forwarded to the 

 Treasury Department for final audit and settlement. 



MILEAGE BOOKS. 



During the fiscal year 764 mileage and scrip books were purchased 

 for official use by employees of this department, at a cost of $25,287.50. 

 Rebates on these books, amounting to $3,113.65, were deposited in 

 the Treasury to the credit of the appropriations. 



COMBINED ACCOUNTS. 



There were 4,175 combined accounts handled during the fiscal year 

 1911, and it is estimated that the preparation of at least 20,875 

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

 labor. 



APPROPRIATIONS, DISBURSEMENTS, AND UNEXPENDED BALANCES FOR 



THE FISCAL YEAR 1911. 



The table following shows for the fiscal year the amounts appro- 

 priated, disbursed, and unexpended: 



AppropriatioTis, disbursements, and unexpended balances for the fiscal year 1911. 



I And not to exceed 10 per cent of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous expenses of the 

 work of any bureau, division, or office herein pro%'1ded for shall be available interchangeably for expend- 

 iture on the objects included within the general expenses of such bureau, division, or office, but no more 

 than 10 per cent shall be added to any one item of appropriation except in cases of extraordinary emer- 

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



