REPORT OF THK KXECTTTIVH COMMITTEE. XXIII 



Expenditures (hiring 1887-'S8. 



Salaries or compeusation : 



1 curator (pare of year), at §175 per month $598.39 



1 clerk, twelve months, at |150 ])er month 1, 800. 00 



1 clerk, twelve months, at $100 per month 1, 200. 00 



1 clerk, eight months, at $75 per month (JOO. 00 



1 clerk, six months, at $75 per mouth 450. 00 



1 clerk, eight mouths, at $65 per mouth 'rlO. 00 



1 clerk, twelve months, at $60 per month 720.00 



1 clerk, six months, Jit $60 per month liiiO. 00 



1 clerk, eight months, at $60 per month 480. 00 



1 clerk, four mouths, at $60 per mouth 240.00 



1 clerk, four months, at $55 per mouth 220. 00 



1 copj'ist, four months, at $40 per mouth KiO. 00 



1 copyist, special 40. 65 



1 packer, nine months, at $75 per month 675, 00 



1 packer, five mouths, at $50 per mouth 250. 00 



1 messenger, nine months, at $20 per mouth 180. 00 



1 laborer, two months, at $40 per month 80. 00 



1 agent (Germany), one year 1, 000. 00 



1 agent (England), one year 500.00 



Total salaries and conipeusatiou §10, 074. 04 



Freight 924.54 



Packing-boxes 527. 00 



Printing 230.50 



Postage 100.00 



Binding records 88. 00 



Date stamps 5. 75 



Total expenditure $11,949.83 



Balance unexpended July 1, 1888 50. 17 



NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



An appropriation of $40,000 was made by Congress for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1.S88, for the prosecution of ethnological researches 

 under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 The actual conduct of these investigations has been placed by the Sec- 

 retary in the hands of Maj. J. W. Powell, Director of the (Tcological 

 Survey. Theabstractsof ex()endituresand balnncesheets for thisappro- 

 priation have been exhibited to us; the vouchers for the expenditures, 

 after approval by theSecretary, are paid by the disbursing clerk of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology and transmitted to the accounting oflicers of the 

 Treasury Department for settlement. 



The balance avaihible to meet outs^tanding liabib'ties on tlie 1st of 

 July, 1888, as reported by the official disbursing agent, is 87,847.08. 



