REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF 

 REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



For the Year Ending June 30. 1906. 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: 



Your executive committee respectfully submits the following report 

 in relation to the funds, receipts, and disbursements of the Insti- 

 tution and the disbursement of the appropriations by Congress for 

 the National Museum, the International Exchanges, the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, and the Astro- 

 physical Observatory'' for the year ending June 30, 1906, and balances 

 of previous appropriations. 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Condition of the fund Jid;/ 7, 1906. 



The permanent fund of the Institution and the sources from which 

 it has been derived are as follows: 



DEPOSITED IN THE TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Bequest of Smithson, 1846 $515,169.00 



Residuary l.igacy of Smithson. 1867 26.210.63 



Deposit from savings of income, 1867 108.620.37 



Bequest of James Hamilton, 1875 $1,000.00 



Accumulated interest on Hamilton fund, 1895 1,000.00 



2. 000. 00 



Bequest of Simeon Habel, 1880 500.00 



Deposits from proceeds of sale of bonds, 1881 51, 500. 00 



Gift of Thomas G. Hodgkins, 1891 200,000.00 



Part of residuary legacy of Thomas G. Hodgkins, 1894 8,000. 00 



Deposit from savings of income. 1903 25,000.00 



Total amount of fund in the United States Treasury 937, 000. 00 



HELD AT THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Registered and guaranteed bonds of the West Shore Railroad Com- 

 pany, part of legacy of Thomas G. Hodgkins 42.000.00 



Total permanent fund 979.000.00 



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