REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 123 



FOR ADDITIONAL, SECURITY AGAINST FIRE. 



Receipts. 

 1870. 

 July 1. Appropriation for year ending June 30, 1880 $3,000 00 



Expenditures. 



For the quarter ending- September 30, 1879 .... $ 161 05 



For the quarter ending December 31, 1879 1, 230 63 



1,692 58 



Balance available from January 1 to July 1, 1880 1, 307 42 



FOR COMPLETING CONTRIBUTIONS TO ETHNOLOGY. 



Eeceipts. 

 1879. 



July 1. Appropriation for the year ending June 30, 1880. $20, 000 00 



Expenditures. 

 For the two quarters ending December 31, 1879 13, 769 <>o 



Balance available from January 1 to July 1, 1880 0, 231 00 



FOR FIRE-PROOF BUILDING FOR THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Eeceipts. 



1879. 



March 3. Appropriation for new building $250, 000 00 



Expenditures to Jan. 1, 1880 143, 140 38 



Balance available from January 1 to July 1, 1880. $106,853 62 



SUMMARY. 



The Executive Committee have examined 687 vouchers for payments 

 made from the Smithson income during the year 1879, aud GOO vouchers 

 for payments made from appropriations by Congress for the National 

 Museum, making a total of 1,377 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. 



The committee have examined the account books of the National Mu- 

 seum and find the balances as before stated — preservation, $1 L,492.19; 

 armory, $1,037.54 ; security against fire, $1,307.42— to correspond with the 

 certificates of the disbursing clerk of the Department of the interior. 

 They also find the balance of $106,853.62 of the National Museum build- 

 ing appropriation corresponds with the certificate of the disbursing 

 officer of the Treasury I >epartnient January 5, 1880. 



The quarterly accounts current, bank-book, check-book, aud journal 

 of the Institution have been examined and found to be correct, and show 



