KEPOHT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF 

 RECENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITliTlON 



For the Year Ending June oO, l!)Oi. 



To tlie Board of Regents of the Sm'dlisionhm Institutiori : 



Your executive couunittee respectfully subuiits the followinir report 

 in relation to the funds of the Institution, the appropriations by Con- 

 gress, and the receipts and expenditures for the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, the U. S. National jVIuseiun, the International Exchang^es, the 

 Bureau of Ethnoloo-y. the National Zoolog-ieal Park, and the Astro- 

 l^hysical Observatory for the year endino- June oO. 1004, and balances 

 of former years : 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Condition of ttic fi/iid Jntij 7, lOOIf. 



The amount of the bequest of James Smithson deposited in the 

 Treasury of the United States, accordina' to act of C'on<>T-ess of Au- 

 gust 10, IS-tC), was $r)15,i()l). To this was added, by authority of Con- 

 gress, Febrnary S, 1<S()T, the residuary legacy of Smithson, savings 

 from income and other sources, to the amount of $134,881. 



To this also have bi'cn added a bexpiest from James Hamilton, of 

 Pennsylvania, of $1,000; a bequest of Dr. Simeon Habel, of Ncav 

 York, of $500; the proceeds of the sale of Virginia bonds, $51,-500; a 

 gift from Thomas G. Hodgkins, of New York, of $200,000 and $8,000, 

 being a ])ortion of the residuary legacy of Thomas G. Hodgkins, and 

 $1,000, the accunndated interest on the Hamilton bequest, savings 

 from income, $25,000, making in all, as the permanent fund, $0?>7,000. 



The Institution also holds the additional sum of $42,000, received 

 u])on the death of Thomas (i. Hodgkins. in registered West Shore 

 Railroad 4 per cent bonds, A\hich were, l)y order of this connnittee, 

 under date of May 18, 1894, placed in the hands of the Secretai\v of 

 the Institution, to be held by him subject to the conditions of said 

 order. 



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