576 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Appropriation for fiscal year ending June 30, 



1875. (Statutes, 1874, p. 216) $20, 000 00 



Expenditure from July 1, 1874, to January 11, 



1875. (See Museum Journal A, p. 106) 12, 011 38 



Balance unexpended $7 9§3 q% 



For fitting up halls for Government collections. 



Balance unexpended of appropriation for fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1874. (Museum Journal 

 A, p. 519) $5,550 92 



Expenditure on this account in 1874. (Museum 

 Journal A, p. 527) 5) 550 92 



Balance Nothing. 



For steam-heating apparatus for Museum. 



Balance unexpended of appropriation for fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1874. (Museum Journal 

 A, p. 533) 3,462 03 



Expenditure on this account in 1874. (Museum 

 Journal A, p. 527) 3, 462 03 



33alauce Nothing. 



For fitting up and completing cases for collections. 



Appropriation for fiscal year ending June 30, 



1875. (Statutes, 1874, p. 216) 10, 000 00 



Expended on this account in 1874. (Museum 

 Journal A, p. 106) 10? 00 00 



Balance Nothing. 



From the above statement it appears that of the congressional appro- 

 priations for the National Museum, the only amount unexpended and 

 now available for the collections is $7,982.62. The estimates submitted 

 by the Institution to Congress for the fiscal year ending 30th June, 

 1876, were as follows : 



For the preservation of the collections $25, 000 00 



For fitting up and completing the cases 10* 000 00 



Total amount required $35 qqq qq 



We have no reason to doubt that this sum, or the greater part of it 

 will be appropriated by Congress during the present session. 

 All the payments on account of the National Museum have been made 



