REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMIMITTEE. XVII 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES — SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Balance available January 1, 1882 $1, 500 00 



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



Total available $6, 500 00 



Expended as per vouchers audited, in 1882 4, 000 00 



Balance available January 1, 1883, for six months ending 



with fiscal year June 30, 1883 2, 500 00 



FIRE-PROOF BUILDING, NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Balance available January 1, 1882 $5, 317 05 



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



Balance returned to the United States Treasury $13 27 



POLARIS REPORT. 



Balance available January 1, 1882 $3, 597 75 



Expended in 1882 1, 078 85 



Balance available January 1, 1883 $1, 918 90 



CONCLUSION. 



The Executive Committee has examined 705 vouchers for payments 

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

 vouchers for payments made from appropriations by Congress for the 

 ^ffational 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 National 

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



Preservation of collect ions $44, 823 30 



Armory building 1, 495 79 



Furniture and fixtures 31, 182 12 



to correspond with the certificates of the disbursing clerks of the De- 

 l)artments of the Interior and of the Treasury. 



The balance unexi)euded of the appropriation of $8,000 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. Hall, according to the certificate of the 

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

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