REPORT ol' I'HK KXECIITIVK COMMITTEE, XXIII 



Kxpenditiires (htruifj 1887-'S8. 



Salaries or eonipensatiou: 



1 curator (part of yt'ar), at .$175 per month $51)8. :>t> 



1 clerk, twelve mouths, at |150 ]»fer moiitli 1, 800, 00 



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



1 clerk, eight months, at $75 per month ()()0. 00 



1 clerk, six months, at |i75 per month 450.00 



1 clerk, eight mouths, at -$()5 per month 5'iO. 00 



1 clerk, twelve mouths, at $60 per month 7-20.00 



1 clerk, six months, at $()0 per month 'M>0. 00 



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



1 clerk, four months, at $60 per mouth 240. 00 



1 clerk, four months, at $55 per month vi'JO. 00 



1 copyist, four mouths, at $40 per mouth 160. 00 



1 copyist, special 40. 65 



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



1 packer, five months, at $.50 per month 250.00 



1 messenger, uine mouths, at $20 per month 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 compensation $10, 074. 04 



Freight i)24. 54 



Packing-boxes 527. 00 



Printing 2:50.50 



Postage 100.00 



Binding records 88. 00 



Date stamps 5. 75 



Total expenditure $1I,94'.>. 83 



Balance unexpended .July 1, 1888 50.17 



NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOtrY. 



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

 ending June 30, 1S88, for tlie prosecution of etiinolooical researches 

 under the direction of the Secretary of th(^ Smithsonian Institution. 

 The actual conduct of these iuvesti.i>ations has been i)laced by the Sec- 

 retary in the hands of Maj. J. W. Powell, Director of the Geolooic^al 

 Survey. Theabstractsof e.xpendituresand halancesheets for thisappro- 

 ])riation have been exhibited to us; the vouchers for the expenditnres, 

 after approval by the Secretary, are paid by the disbursing- clerk of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology and transmitted to the accounting offi(!ers of the 

 Treasury Department for settlenuMit. 



The balance available to meet outstanding liabilities on tiie 1st of 

 July, 1888, as reported by the official disbursing agent, is $7,847.08. 



