DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBUESEMENTS. 



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ACCOUNTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1899 FINALLY CLOSED. 



The accounts for the year ended June 30, 1899, were finally closed 

 on June 30, 1901, and the balances of the various appropriations 

 carried to the surplus fund and turned into the Treasury, on that 

 date, as follows: 



Amount of unexpended balances turned into the Treasury. 



Object. 



Salaries, officers and clerks 



Furniture, cases, and repairs. 



Library - - 



Museum -- - 



Postage - 



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 information 



Agricultural experiment stations [S<'tJO,000] > 



Nutrition investigations 



Public- road inquiries 



Publications 



Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds 



Investigating production of domestic sugar . _ 



Salaries and expenses, Bureaii of Animal Industry. 



Total. 



WEATHER BUREAU, 



Salaries - 



Fuel, lights, and repairs 



Contingent expenses 



General expenses: 



Salaries.. 



Miscellaneous 



Meteorological observation stations 



Erection of building at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich 



Repairs to buildings and grounds, Bismarck, N. Dak. 



Total, Weather Bureau _ 



Grand total 



Appropria- 

 tions for 

 1899. 



$319,300.00 



9,000.00 



6,000.00 



1,. 500. 00 



2,000.00 



2.5, 000. 00 



13,000.00 



105,000.00 



30,000.00 



20,000.00 



20, 000. 00 



17,500.00 



9,500.00 



13,400.00 



20,000.00 



20,000.00 



10,000.00 



10,000.00 



10, 000, 00 



40,000.00 



15, 000. 00 



8,000.00 



65,000.00 



130, 000. 00 



7,000.00 



900,000.00 



1,814,300.00 



153,340.00 

 8,000.00 

 8,000.00 



765, 163. 00 



75,000.00 

 3,000.00 

 3,000.00 



1,015,502.00 



2, 839, 703. CO 



Amount 

 disbursed. 



S315,986.70 



8,667.75 



5,&59.51 



1,465.36 



2, 000. 00 



33,888.08 



11,833.38 



100, 9.53. 43 



19,973.07 



19, 813. 64 



19,634.32 



17,373.36 



8,248.18 



12,028.15 



19,530.53 



19,879.66 



9, 885. 85 



9, 9.50. 99 



9,997.49 



39, 536. 38 



14,903.08 



7,469.50 



64,773.62 



128,3.50.61 



6,860.30 



''920,164.47 



1,818,824.35 



153,597.83 

 7,822.31 



7,755.87 



380,950.03 



380.5.35.63 



73,316.43 



2,994.12 



2,999.10 



1,008,971.30 



2,827,795.65 



Amount un- 

 expended. 



S3, 313. .30 



333.25 



340.49 



34.64 



1,111.92 

 166. 63 



4, 047. .52 



27.93 



187. 36 



365. 68 



136.74 



1,251.83 



371. 85 



469.48 



120. .34 



114. 15 



49.01 



2.51 



463.62 



96.92 



530. .50 



220. 38 



1,649.39 

 139. 70 



6, 828. 45 



22,368.57 



742. 17 

 177. 69 

 244.13 



1,244.97 

 2,431.38 

 1,683. .58 



5.88 

 .90 



6,530.70 



28,899.27 



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

 Department. 

 - Includes $36,993.93 received from sale of American products in Europe. 



MONTHLY CHECK STATEMENT, SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS, ETC. 



The monthly check statements from the Treasury and subtreasu- 

 ries were received and found to agree with the books of this of&ce. 

 All vouchers were forwarded quarterly to the Treasury, passed upon 

 l)y the accounting officers, and certified as correct. The annual report 

 to Congress of all expenditures of the Department for the year 1900 

 was prepared in this office and submitted through the Speaker of the 

 House of Representatives. 



ANNUAL SUPPLIES. 



Bids for annual supplies were solicited in May in the usual manner, 

 and contracts were made covering nearly all the lines of supplies 

 needed by the Department during the ensuing year at prices varying 

 but slightly from those of tlie preceding year. All contracts were 

 secured by satisfactory bonds. 



