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into the letter- press; that this was an unforeseen expense, and could not 

 have been ascertained before the M'ork was about being set up in the print- 

 ing office: that he was compelled to make the alterations in the cuts, or to 

 destroy the beauty of t!ie page.s of the book. These additions to the cost 

 of the work having materially enhanced its beauty, the committee hope 

 the Board of Regents will sanction the course of the Committee in 

 paying the extra charges. 



The committee now present a statement of the expenditures as yet in- 

 curred, or pledged on the building and grounds, and chargeable to the 

 building fund of ^>250;,000, heretofore set apart. 



Total amount appropriated for building and grounds - ^250,000 

 Amount of Mr. Cameron's contract - - $205,250 00 



Architect's salary for five years - - 9, OUO 00 



Superintendents and draughtsmen for 5 years, 5, 000 00 



Incidental expenses allowed architect - 2,000 00 



Facing areas with cut-stone . - - 460 00 



Building battlements to cloisters - - 200 00 



Additional apparatus cases - • - - 200 00 



Hedging and planting , - . 1,050 00 



Furnaces already put up - - - 1,135 63 



Addition of clere-story to museum - - 2, 350 00 



Alteration of stairway, etc. - - - 100 00 



Chimneys added to the east wing - - 400 00 



Sodding ground near building - - 100 00 

 Heating central building with sfeam, inclu- 

 ding cellar for boiler and as a coal vault — 



a])proximate etsimate of the architect - 3,200 00 

 Additional furniture and incidental expenses — 



say 1,000 00 



231,165 63 



Leaving, as applicable to unforeseen expenses cojinected with 



the building or grounds, the sum of ... 18,54437 



A contract made with Mr. John Douglass, jr., for planting and cultiva- 

 ting trees and shrubs within the Smithsonian grounds, and another 

 with the same person for planting and cultivating hedges along the margin 

 of the same, not having been complied with on Ins part, have been annul- 

 led by the committee. The committee are sorry to say, that from these 

 failures the yearjnst past may be considered as almost wholly lost, as re- 

 spects the establishment of trees or hedges. They look, however, for better 

 results from their future arrangements of this nature. 



JOS. G. TOTTEN, 

 \V. W. SEATON, 

 H. W. HILLIARD. 



