FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 



Appropriations: 



Diplomatic act, June 30, 1914 $35) 000. 00 



Diplomatic act, Mar. 4, 1915 15, 000. 00 



Deficiency act, Dec. 17, 1915 35, 000. 00 



Total appropriations 85, 000. 00 



Expenditures: 



Salaries, including clerical services 23, 720. 55 



Services, including contract for court stenographers, reporting, pub- 

 licity, and honorariums 6, 866. 12 



Authorized traveling and subsistence expenses of 66 employees 3, 834. 41 



Printing and engraving 24, 976. 30 



Office supplies, including furniture, typewriting machines, and 



rental charges 3, 323. 39 



Postage, car tickets, telegrams, telephone and messenger service, 



drayage, etc i, 918. 93 



Entertainments, including tours, receptions, dinners, etc., medals, 



music, floral decorations, and taxicabs 18, 835. 73 



Rent for rooms and meeting places i, 23 1. 08 



Miscellaneous '. 285. 94 



Unexpended balance, refunded to appropriation, Oct. 30, 1916 7. 55 



Total expenditures 85, 000. 00 



All of the above was disbursed under the direction of the disbursing 

 officer of the Pan American Union, who served as disbursing officer for 

 the Pan American Scientific Congress. On Sept. 8, 1916, the United 

 States Congress, in its urgent deficiency bill of that date, appropriated 

 for the preparation and printing of the proceedings of the congress the 

 sum, disbtirsed by the State Department, of 42, 000. 00 



Grand total expended 127, 000. 00 



17s 

 48192—17 12 



