DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. 



683 



fiscal ao-cnts shown inchulos 8 and 7, respectively, for Forest Service, 

 to whom $5,244, 300.81 was advanced, requiring 105 requisitions upon 

 the Treasury. A\\ accounts of temporary special dislnirsing agents 

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

 trative examination in this division before being forwarded to the 

 Treasuiy Department for fhial audit and settlement. 



MILEAGE BOOKS. 



During the fiscal year 1,722 mileage and scrip books were purchased 

 for ofiicial use by employees of this department, at a cost of $48,101. 

 Rebates on these books, amounting to S4,09G.ll, were deposited in 

 the Treasury to the credit of the appropriations. 



COMBINED ACCOUNTS. 



There were about d.OOO conibined accounts handled during the 

 fiscal year 1911, and it is estimated that the preparation of at least 

 25,000 checks was thereby avoided, to say nothing of the saving in 

 clerical labor. 



APPROPRIATIONS, DISBURSEMENTS, AND UNEXPENDED BALANCES FOR 



THE FI CAL YEAR 1912. 



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

 priated, disbursed, and unexpended: 



Appropriations, disbursements, and unexpended balances for the fiscal year 1912. 



' And not to exceed 10 percent of the fori-gohig amounts for the mi.'scollaneoasoxpen.ses of the work of any 

 bureau, division, or ollicn herein provided f'lr shall be availahli" interchanu'eahly for expiMiditun' on the 

 objects included within the gen(>ral cvp-iis's of such bureau, division, or oilice, but no more than 10 per 

 omt shall Xv added to any one it/'m of inpropriati m e.xci'pt in casty of extraordinary emergency, aud then 

 only ui)on the writtou order of tlio Sceiulary of Agriculturu. 



