REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. XVII 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES— SMIinSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Balance available January 1, 1882 $ 1 , 500 00 



Appropriated for fiscal year, 1882-'83 5, 000 00 



Total available |6, 500 00 



Exiiended as per vouchers audited, in 1882 4. 000 00 



Balance available January 1, 1883, for six mouths ending' 



with fiscal year June 30, 1883 2, 500 00 



FIRE-PROOF BUILDING, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



Balance avail.iblo January 1, 1882 $5, 31 7 05 



Expended as per vouchers audited, in 1882. . 5, 304 38 



Balance returned to the United States Treasury $13 27 



POLARIS REPor.T. 



Balance available January 1, 1882 $3, 507 75 



Expended in 1882 1, 078 85 



Balance available January 1, 1883 $1 , 918 90 



CONCLUSION. 



The Executive Committee has examined 7(55 vouchers for payments 

 made from the Smithson income during the year 1882, and 2,169 

 vouchers for payments made from ai)propriatious by Congress for the 

 National Museum, making a total of 2,934 vouchers. All these bear the 

 approval of the Secretary of the Institution, and a certificate that the 

 materials and services charged were applied to the purposes of the 

 Institution or the Museum. 



The committee has examined the account-books of the ISTational 

 Museum, and find the balances unexpended as before stated, viz: 



Preservation of collections ... 844, 823 30 



Armory building 1, 495 79 



Furniture and fixtures 31, 182 12 



to correspond vf^ith the certificates of the disbursing clerks of the De- 

 partments of the Interior and of the Treasury. 



The balance unexpended of the appropriation of 88,000 made by the 

 Forty-sixth Congress in 1880 for completing the preparation of the 

 report of Dr. Emil Bessels of the scientific results of the Arctic expe- 

 dition under the late Capt. C. F. Ilall, according to the certificate of the 

 disbursing agent of the Treasury Department, is $1,918.90. 

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