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tutiug the third) has been under the State Department, amounting to 

 $7,500. This allowance has been a very important relief to the In- 

 stitution, which originally was obliged to meet all the costs of this 

 work, sometimes to the amount of $12,000 annually, out of its small in 

 come. The appropriation by Cougress, first of $3,500, next of $5,000, 

 and, next of $7,500, has enabled the Institution to meet the burden 

 more* easily and to greatly increase the efficiency and extent of the 

 system, although the additional cost in 1883 met from the Sinithsouiau 

 fund has been $6,192.34. 



If the Institution were obliged to pay the full freight charges on its 

 packages carried by ocean steamers, the cost would necessarily be in- 

 creased by several thousands of dollars. Thanks, however, to the 

 liberality of the principal steamship companies, no charges whatever 

 are made for such transportation. 



The principal companies making this concession are the following: 



American Colonization Society, Washington, D. O. 



Anchor Steamship Company (Henderson & Bro., agents), New York. 



Atlas Steamship Company (Pirn, Forwood & Co., agents), New York. 



Bailey, H. B., & Co., New York. 



Beadle, E. E., Philadelphia. 



Bixby, Thomas & Co., Boston, Mass. 



Bland, Thomas, New York. 



Borland, B. R., New York. 



Cameron, E. W., & Co., New York. 



Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (L.de Bebian, agent), New York. 



Cunard Royal Mail Steamship Line (Vernon Brown & Co., agents), 

 New York. 



Dallett, Boulton & Co., New York. 



Dennison, Thomas, New York. 



Hamburg American Packet Company (Kunhardt & Co., agents), 

 New York. 



Inman Steamship Company, New York. 



Merchants' Line of Steamers, New York. 



Monarch Line (Patton, Vickers & Co., agents), New York. 



Munoz y Espriella, New York. 



Murray, Ferris & Co., New York. 



Netherlands American Steam Navigation Company (H. Cazaux, 

 agent), New York. 



New York and Brazil Steamship Company, New York. 



New York and Mexico Steamship Company, New York. 



North German Lloyd (agents, Oelrichs & Co., New York ; Schu- 

 macher & Co., Baltimore). 



Pacific Mail Steamship Company, New York. 



Panama Railroad Company, New York. 



Red Star Line (Peter Wright & Sous, agents), New York. 



Spinney, Joseph S., New York, 





