DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. 575 



ANNUAL REPORT OF EXPENDITURES. 



A classified statement of the expenditures of the department for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911 (extended to August 31, 1911), 

 was prepared in accordance with law and will be submitted to the 

 Committee on Expenditures. A recapitulation of the expenditures 

 of the department will b3 found below, classified as required by the 

 committee : 



Recapitulation of the several appropriations for the entire Department of Agriculture as 

 distributed among the following groups, and the total expenditures under each. 



Statutory salaries.... _. $1,442,269.12 



Lump-fund salaries in Washington 1, 517, 726.02 



Lump-fund salaries outside of Washington 8, 324, 499. 82 



Stationery 128, 302. 78 



Miscellaneous supplies and services, equipment, books, machinery, etc. 2, 674, 990. 08 



Furniture 55, 052. 28 



Fuel 30,889.44 



Freight 41,795.15 



Express 18,292.46 



Telegraph 132,060.53 



Telephone 47,172.24 



Rent 279, 171. 57 



Gas and electricity 22, 280. 82 



Apparatus, instruments, and laboratory material 126, 017. 61 



Travel and station and field expenses 1, 165, 481. 30 



Total 16,006,001.22 



Total appropriations for Department of Agriculture ■. 19, 421, 876. 43 



Total expenditures under above groups $16, 006, 001. 22 



Advances to temporary special disbursing agents of the 



Forest Service 31, 240. 50 



Forest Service refunds: 



To depositors, excess deposits 57, 912, 73 



Payments to States and Territories, 25 per cent of 



receipts 506,194.83 



Total expenditures of entire Department of Agriculture 16, 601, 349. 28 



Unexpended balance on Aug. 31, 1911 2, 820, 527. 15 



Repayments to credit of appropriations 21, 129. 48 



Net unexpended balance on Aug. 31, 1911 2,841,656.63 



Of this amount there was available for further disbursement 95, 940. 19 



Balance 2, 745, 716. 44 



Outstanding liabilities (estimated) 605,221. 47 



Balance to be turned back in Treasury (estimated) 2, 140, 494. 97 



CENTRALIZATION OF FISCAL WORK. 



The appropriation act of the department for the fiscal year 1911, 

 which went into effect July 1, 1910, transferred the fiscal agents of 

 the Forest Service to the Division of Accounts and Disbursements, 

 thus centralizing, in this division, the fiscal affairs of the entire 

 department. 



THE WEEKS LAW. 



Under the act entitled "An act to enable any State to cooperate 

 with any other State or States, or with the United States, for the 



