110 KEPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Appropriation for the fiscal year ending 30tli June, 1870. 

 (Digest of Appropriations, 187G, p. 105.) 



For preservation of collections $20, 000 00 



For fitting up new halls 10, 000 00 



For completing heating apparatus 2, 500 00 ■ 



632, 500 00 



Expenditure from July 1, 1875, to December 31, 1875. (Mu- 



Reum Journal A, p. 1G3) 22, 881 32 



Balance unexpended $9, G18 G8 



Kequired for the six months ending 30th June, 187G. 



The estimates submitted by the Institution to Congress for appropri- 

 ations for the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1877, were as follows: 

 For preservation of the collections of the surveying and ex- 

 ploring expeditions of the Government $25, 000 00 



For fitting up apartments for mounting and photographing 

 specimens ^, 000 00 



30, 000 00 



This sum is $5,000 less than the amount asked for the previous year. 



All the payments on account of the ]!Tational Museum have been 

 made, during the past year, directly by the disbursing-ofificer of the 

 Department of the Interior on the presentation of vouchers approved 

 by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



SUMMARY. 



The Executive Committee have examined five hundred and ninety- 

 eight vouchers for payments made from the Smithson income during 

 the year 1875, and three hundred and forty-six similar vouchers for 

 payments made from the Congressional appropriations for the National 

 Museum, making a total number of nine hundred and forty -four vouchers. 



All of the vouchers have the approval of the Secretary of the Institu- 

 tion, and a certificate setting forth that the materials and property and 

 services rendered were for the Institution, and to be applied to the pur- 

 poses specified. 



As authorized by a resolution of the Board of Regents, 2Gth May, 

 1874, the committee have also examined the account-books of the Na- 

 tional Museum and find the balance of $9,G18.G8 to the credit of the 

 appropriation for the "preservation of the collections" remaining on 

 the 1st of January, 1876, to correspond with the certificate of the dis- 

 bursiug-clcrk of the Department of the Interior. 



The quarterly accounts current, bank-book, checkbook, and ledger 

 have also been examined and found to be correct, showing a balance in 



