DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBUESEMENTS. 



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ACCOUNTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1899 FINALLY CLOSED. 



The accounts for the year ended June 30, 1899, were finally closed 

 on June 30, 1901, and the balances of the various appropriations 

 carried to the surplus fund and turned into the Treasury, on that 

 date, as follows: 



Amount of unexpended balances turned into the Treasury. 



Object. 



Salaries, officers and clerks 



Furniture, cases, and repairs... 



Library 



Museum 



Postage 



Contingent expenses 



Animalquarantine 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 information 



Agricultural experiment stations [$760,000] > 



Nutrition investigations 



Public-road inquiries 



Publications 



Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds 



Investigating production of domestic sugar 



Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry. 



Total __ 



WEATHER BUREAU. 



Salaries 



Fuel, lights, and repairs.. 



Contingent expenses 



General expenses: 



Salaries 



Miscellaneous 



Meteorological observation stations 



Erection of building at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich 



Repairs to buildings and grounds, Bismarck, N. Dak 



Total, Weather Bureau 



Grand total 



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

 Department. 



2 Includes $26,992.92 received from sale of American products in Europe. 



MONTHLY CHECK STATEMENT, SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS, ETC. 



The monthly check statements from the Treasury and subtreasu- 

 ries were received and found to agree with the books of this office. 

 All vouchers were forwarded quarterly to the Treasury, passed upon 

 1 >y the accounting officers, and certified as correct. The annual report 

 to Congress of all expenditures of the Department for the year 1900 

 was prepared in this office and submitted through the Speaker of the 

 House of Representatives. 



ANNUAL SUPPLIES. 



Bids for annual supplies were solicited in May in the usual manner, 



\ and contracts were made covering nearly all the lines of supplies 



needed by the Department during the ensuing year at prices varying 



but slightly from those of the preceding year. All contracts were 



; secured by satisfactory bonds. 



