REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY 153 



Statement shotting condition of appropriation for Centennial Exposition of <>liit> Valley 



and Central States, April 15, 1869. 



Appropriation $50,0(1(1.(1(1 



Fish Commission allotment 10, O0U. 00 



Net appropriation 40, 000. 00 



ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITURES. 



(«) Servicesof assistants, clerks, laborers, etc $16,752.00 



(b) Fittings, materials, cases, travel, freight, storage, etc... 13,300.00 



(c) New material completing scries, specimens, models, etc. 5,750.00 



(d) General contingent fund 4, 198.00 



40, 000. 00 



ACTUAL EXPENDITURES. 



(a) Services of assistants, clerks, laborers, etc 20,305.41 



(6) Fittings, materials, cases, travel, freigbt, storage, etc.... 13, 841. 33 



(c) New materials completing series, specimens, models, etc. 4.542. G2 



(d) Unexpended balance 1,310.64 



40, 000. 00 



I recommend that the balance to the credit of the Institution, amount- 

 ing to $1,310.64, be covered into the Treasury according to law. 

 Very respectfully, 



G. Brown Goode, 

 Assistant Secretary. 

 Prof. S. P. Langley, LL. D., 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



