EEPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. XXXIX 



Expenditures July 1, 1897, to June 30, 189S. 



Salaries $280. 50 



Special services 471. 03 



Total services $751. 53 



Miscellaneous: 



Drawings and blue prints 58. 65 



Arches and pavements 4, 979. 50 



Iron columns and steel beams, erection 300. 00 



Iron columns and steel beams 1, 410. 00 



Iron stairways 168. 00 



Lumber 7. 10 



Advertising 21. 75 



Hardware 6. 60 



Brick, lime, sand, etc 138. 00 



Rubber 150. 00 



Total miscellaneous 7, 239. 60 



Total expenditures $7, 991. 13 



Balance July 1, 1899 8. 87 



GALLERIES, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Balance as per report July 1, 1898 $0. 05 



Balance carried, under the provisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the 

 Treasury Department, to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1899. 



REBUILDING SHEDS, 1898. 



Balance as per report July 1, 1898 $28. 90 



Expenditures to June SO, 1899. 

 Lumber 28.12 



Balance July 1, 1899 .78 



LIBRARY OF G. BROWN GOODE. 



Receipts. 



Appropriation by Congress for purchase of 2,900 volumes, 18,000 pam- 

 phlets, 1,800 portraits, autographs, and engravings relating to museums, 

 exhibitions, and natural history, the library of the late G. Brown 

 Goode (sundry civil act, July 1, 1898) $5,000.00 



Expenditure. 

 Sarah F. J. Goode, executrix 5,000.00 



NATIONAL MUSEUM— BOOKS, '899. 



Receipts. 



Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, for 

 purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in the 

 National Museum (sundry civil act, July 1, 1898) $2, 000. 00 



Expenditures. 



Paid for purcha.se of books, pamphlets, and periodicals July 1, 1898, to 



June 30. 1899 .' 1, .300. 43 



Balance Julv 1, 1899 699. 57 



