XLVIII REPOKT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



A.STROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1901. 

 RECEII'T.S. 



Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, "for 

 maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase 

 of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, printing and publishing 

 results of researches, not exceeding one thousand rive hundred copies, 

 repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, twelve 

 thousand dollars" (sundry civil act, June 6, 1900) ..-.. $12,000.00 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Salaries or compensation: 



1 aid, 12 months, at $175 $2, 100. 00 



1 clerk, 1 month, at $125 125. 00 



. 1 junior assistant, 12 months, at $110 1, 320. 00 



1 stenographer, 12 months, at $100 , 1, 200. 00 



1 instrument-maker, 9 months, at $80. . . 720. 00 



1 fireman. 12 months, at $50 (500. 00 



1 photographer, 29 days, at $4.50 130. 50 



5 carpenters, 22 days, at $3 66. 00 



2 painters, 6 days, at $2.80 16.80 



2 painters, 6 days, at $2 12. 00 



1 skilled laborer, -H days, at S70 per month ... 10. 16 



1 laborer, 5 days, at $1.75 8. 75 



6 laborers, 98.1 days, at $1.50 147. 75 



1 cleaner, 166 days, at $1 166. 00 



Total salaries or compensation $6, 622. 96 



General expenses: 



Apparatus $1, 417. 43 



I U »oks 98. 69 



Electric power 116. 70 



Freight 5. 00 



Fuel - - - 6 1 . 80 



Drawings and illustrations 16. 40 



Lumber 19. 88 



Reports 3, 106. 34 



Stationery, supplies, etc 321. 98 



Traveling expenses 133. 02 



■ 5, 297. 24 



Total disbursements $11, 920. 20 



balance July 1, 1901 79. 80 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, 1900. 



Balance July 1, 1900, as per last report $1, 215. 78 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



< (eneral expense* 



Apparatus - $880. 00 



Books 30. 42 



Freight 18. 86 



Fuel 27. 30 



1 )rawings 20. 00 



