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DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



REQUISITIONS, LETTERS, REQUESTS, CONTRACTS, AND LEASES. 



To meet the regular expenditures of the Department 107 requisitions 

 were drawn on the Treasury against the various appropriations, 

 amounting to $3,278,702.12. 



The number of requisitions for supplies was 6,416. 



The number of letters of authority for travel was 2,445. 



The number of letters written and received in the regular trans- 

 action of business was 34,871. • 



The number of requests issued for passenger transportation was 2,490. 



The number of requests on the Quartermaster-General for transpor- 

 tation of Government property was 2,124. 



The number of leases executed and in effect was 135. 



The number of contracts for supplies, etc., was 170. 



PUBLIC MONEYS RECEIVED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. 



There were received from all sources and deposited in the Treasury 

 to the credit of the proper funds the following sums: 



Sale of condemned property ._ $2,481.32 



Sale of Card Index 163.76 



Sale of publications. Weather Bur ean .. ... 174.44 



Seacoast telegraph line receipts, Weather Bureau 1, 728. 49 



Sale of American products in Europe 514. 96 



Total 5,062.97 



APPROPRIATIONS, DISBURSEMENTS, AND UNEXPENDED BALANCES. 



The following table shows the appropriations, disbursements, and 

 unexpended balances for the year ended June 30, 1901 : 



Appropriations, disbursements, and amount unexpended for the fiscal year 1901. 



Object. 



Salaries, officers and clerks 



Library { 



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 investigations 



Agricultural experiment stations [$780,000] l 



Nutrition investigations 



Arlington experimental farm 



Public- road inquiries 



Publications - 



Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds. 



Investigating production of domestic sugar . 



Tea-culture investigations . . . 



Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry 



Total 



WEATHER BUREAU. 



Salaries 



Fuel, lights, and repairs 



Contingent expenses 



General expenses 



Meteorological observation stations 



Total, Weather Bureau 



Grand total 3,303,500.00 2,9613,373.68 



Appropria- 

 tions, 1901. 



$326, 



5, 



37, 



50, 



no, 



30, 

 22, 

 28, 

 17, 



80, 



20, 



25, 



17, 



50, 



60, 



17, 



10, 



14, 



105, 



170, 



7, 



5, 



1,000, 



680.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 500.00 

 000.00 

 500.00 

 500. 00 

 500.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 500.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000.00 

 000. 00 

 000.00 



2,245,180.00 



153,320.00 

 9,000.00 

 8,000.00 



828,000.00 



60,000.00 



1,058,320.00 



Amount 

 disbursed. 



$319,677.35 



2,641.41 



34,238.54 



39,736.30 



103,090.81 



27, 198. 58 



21,217.94 



26,309.57 



16,082.79 



8,861.36 



26,835.45 



75,685.49 



19,814.43 



24,690.44 



13, 712. 78 



41,411.71 



53, 789. 87 



14,850.15 



9,878.14 



12,619.69 



104, 140. 26 



137, 753. 69 



5, 830. 73 



4,959.42 



877,661.06 



2,022,687. 



152,688.11 



8,318.80 



7, 139. 45 



387,981.59 



328,578.91 



55,978.86 



940,685.72 



Amount un- 

 expended. 



$7,002.65 

 2,358.59 

 2,761.46 

 10,263.70 

 6,909.19 

 2,801.42 

 1,282.06 

 1,690.43 

 1,417.21 



638.64 

 1,664.55 

 4,314.51 



185.57 



309.56 

 3,287.22 

 8,588.29 

 6,210.13 

 2,649.85 



121.86 

 1,380.31 



859. 74 



32,246.31 



1,169.27 



40.58 



1?2,338.94 



222,492.04 



631.89 

 681.20 

 860.55 

 518.41 

 110,921.09 

 4,021.14 



117,634.28 



340,126.32 



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

 Department. 



