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DEPAETMENTAL REPORTS. 



REQUISITIONS, LETTERS, REQUESTS, CONTRACTS, AND LEASES. 



To meet the regular exi^enditures of the Department 107 requisitions 

 were drawn on the Treasury against the various api^rojiriations, 

 amounting to $3,278,702.12. 



The number of requisitions for supplies was 6,-llG. 



The number of letters of authority for travel was 2,445. 



The number of letters written and received in the i-egular trans- 

 action of business was 34,871. 



The number of requests issued for passenger transportation was 2,490. 



The number of requests on the Quartermaster-General for transpor- 

 tation of Government property was 2,124. 



The number of leases executed and in effect was 135. 



The number of contracts for supplies, etc., was 170. 



PUBLIC MONEYS RECEIVED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. 



There were received from all sources and deposited in the Treasury 



to the credit of the proper funds the following sums: 



Sale of condemned property -.,.. $2,481.38 



Sale of Card Index .- 163.76 



Sale of publications. Weather Bureau . . _ _ . . . _ 171. 44 



Seacoast telegraph line receipts, Weather Bureau^ 1, 728. 49 



Sale of American products in Europe . . _ 514. 96 



Total 5,062.97 



APPROPRIATIONS, DISBURSEMENTS, AND UNEXPENDED BALANCES. 



The following table shows the appropriations, disbursements, and 

 unexpended balances for the year ended June 30, 1901 : 



Appropriations, disbursements, and amount unexpended for the fiscal year 1901. 



Object. 



Salaries, officers and clerks 



Library - 



Contingent expenses. 



Animal quarantine stations . ,. -.- 



Collecting agricultural statistics 



Botanical investigations and experiments 



Entomological investigations - 



Vegetable pathological investigations — 



Biological investigations 



Pomological investigations 



Laboratory - - 



Forestry investigations - 



Experimental gardens and grounds 



Soil investigations 



Grass and forage-plant investigations 



Irrigation investigations : . 



Agricultural experiment stations [STHO.OOOJ ' 



Nutrition investigations 



Arlington experimental farm -. - 



Public- road inquiries 



Publications 



Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds. 



Investigating production of domestic sugar 



Tea-culture investigations 



Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry 



Total 



WEATIIEK IIUHEAU. 



Salaries 



Fuel, lights, and repairs 



Contingent expenses 



Appropria- Amount 

 tions, 1901. disbursed. 



$336,680.00 

 5,000.00 

 37,000.00 

 50, 000. 00 

 ] 10, (M 10.00 

 30.(100.00 

 22, 500. 00 

 28,000.00 

 17, .500. 00 

 9. 500. 00 

 28,500.00 

 80,000.00 

 20, (K 10. 00 

 a5,000.00 

 17,0(XI.(M) 

 5(J,000.0() 



eo.fKxi.oo 



17, .500. (HI 



10, CHNX 00 



14,000.00 



105,000. IK) 



170,000.00 



7,(K)0.(M) 



5, (K 10. 00 



1,000,000.00 



2,345,180.00 



General expenses 



Meteorological observation stations . 



Total, Weather Bureau 



153,320.00 

 9,0(M).ro 



^ 8,000. (H) 



828, aw. 00 

 60,000.00 



Grand total 



I,a58,320.00 



3, 30?, 500. 00 



$319,677,35 



3. 641. 41 



34,238.54 



39, 736. 30 



103,090.81 



27,198.58 



21,217.94 



26,309.57 



16,082.79 



8,861.36 



26, 835. 45 



75, 685. 49 



19,814.43 



24,690.44 



13,712.78 



41,411.71 



•53, 789. 87 



14,850.15 



9, 878. 14 



12,619.69 



104,140.26 



i;!r,7r);i.69 



5, 830. 73 



4,959.42 



877,661.06 



2,022,687.96 



152, 688. 11 



8,318.80 



7, 139. 45 



387, 981.. 59 



328, 578. 91 



.55, 978. 86 



940,685.72 



2,963,373.68 



Amount un- 

 expended. 



$7,002.65 

 2,&58.59 

 2,761.46 

 10, 263. 70 

 6, 909. 19 

 2,801.42 

 1,282.06 

 1,690.43 

 1,417.21 



638.64 

 1,664. .55 

 4,314.51 



ia5.57 



309.56 

 3,287.22 

 8,588,39 

 6,210.13 

 2,649.85 



121.86 

 1,380.31 



859.74 



32,346.31 



1,169.27 



40. .58 



1%, 338. 94 



222,492.04 



631.89 

 681.20 

 860.55 

 518.41 

 110,921.09 

 4,021.14 



117,634.28 



340,126.32 



' Of this amount, $720,000 was paid direcciy to the experiment stations from the Treasury 

 Department. 



