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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 

 Recapitulation. 



Number of packages received 

 Weifjlit of packages received 

 Entries made : 



Foreign 



Donieetic 



Ledger accounts : 



Foreign societies 



Domestic societies 



Foreign individuals 



Total. 



82, 572 

 ■J02, 657 



60, 118 

 16, 352 



5,131 

 1,431 

 6,340 



Increaso 



over 

 1888-'89. 



6,606 

 22, 729 



13, 976 

 1 1,924 



665 



76 



1,641 



Domestic individuals 



Domestic packages sent 



Invoices written , 



Cases shipped abroad 



Acknowledgments recorded 



Foreign 



Domestic 



Letters received 



Letters written 



Total. 



Increaso 



over 

 1888-'8». 



3,100 



13, 216 



16, 948 



873 



8, 398 

 9,026 

 1,509 

 1,625 



490 

 t4, 002 

 2,850 



180 



956 



2,144 



205 



t425 



* From December to June inclusive. 



t Decrease. 



An idea of tho growth of the service since 1386 is convoyed by the annexed sum- 

 mary: 



Comparative statement. 



KXPENSE. 



The expen.ses of tho Exchange Bureau arc met in part by a direct appropriation 

 made by Congress in the following terms: 



" For expenses of tho system of international exchanges between the United States 

 and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including 

 salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifteen thousand dollars." 



This is supplemented by appropriations to several Government Bureaus bj' which 

 they are enabled to pay a portion of tho cost of tho exchange of their documents at a 

 rate of 5 cents per pound weight as established by the Board of Regents. Smaller 

 sums have been received from State institutions desiring to make use of the service, 

 and the deficiency is paid from the Smithsonian fund.* 



The receipts and disbursements by the accounting officer of the Smithsonian 

 Institution on account of the international exchanges, as shown in his statement for 

 the fiscal year, dated July 1, 1890, were as follows : 



Iteceipts. 



Direct appropriation by Congress $15, 000.00 



Repayment to Smithsonian Institution: 



United States Government Departments 1,771.53 



Societies and other sources 1 8. 45 



1,789.98 



"The actual cost of the exchanges from July 1, 1889, to June 30, 1890, compiled from 

 th«. accounting officer's books and including the receipts and disbursements for tho 

 fiscal year, entered up to September 24, 1890, was .$17,407.30. 



Fifteen thousand dollars of this sum ($17,407.30) were appropriated by Congress 

 directly to tho Smithsonian Institution, $2,009.34 were repaid to tho Institution by 

 Government Bureaus. $W.40 by State institutions and the deficiency, $369.5C, was 

 met by tho Smithsonian fund. 



