8 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



unsettled bills incurred by the Department during the last fiscal year, 

 and leave a small balance to return to the United States Treasury. 



The amount appropriated for the current fiscal year is $202,440. Of 

 this amount, I expended to September 30, 1872, $42,495.34, leiwing a 

 balance unexpended at that date of $159,944.GG. The estimates for the 

 next fisca'l year are based on the operations of the Department during 

 the current year. 



I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



FEEDERICK WATTS, 



Commissioner of Agriculture. 



His Excellency U. S. Grant, President. 



