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BOARD OF AGKICULTUKE. [Pub. Doc. 



Financial Statement. 



Balance of appropriation for tlie year 



ending Dec. 31, 1904, as per report, 



Dec. 15, 1904, $4,685 09 



Deficiency appropriation, under cliapter 



131, Acts of 1905, .... 6,000 00 



Total available for accounts of 1904, 



Appropriation, under chapter 59, Acts of 



1905, for salaries and exjjenses, etc., . 



Approjjriation, under chapter 40, Acts of 



1905, for general work of Bureau, 



Total to be accounted for. 



$9,685 09 



7,000 00 



60,000 00 



Expenditures for the year have been as follows : — 



For cattle condemned and killed as tuber- 

 culous, 1,625 head, at an average ap- 

 praisal of $21, $34,133 58 



For killing and burial, . . . . 13 00 



For salary of Chief of Bureau, . . 1,800 00 



For expenses of Chief of Bureau, . . 123 69 



For salary of clerk, .... 1,20000 



For assistant clerks and stenograjihers, . 1,752 94 



For printing, postage, stationer}- and 



other office expenses, .... 1,866 34 



For services of agents (exclusive of 



glanders work), . . . . 11,039 97 



For expenses of agents (exclusive of 



glanders work), .... 4,838 83 



For laboratory and experimental work 



(exclusive of glanders work), . . 746 80 



For expenses of glanders work, includ- 

 ing services and expenses of agents, 

 laboratory work, and killing and burial, 7,167 21 



For expenses of quarantine stations at 



Brighton, Watertown and Somerville, 6,625 92 



For implements, ear tags, tuberculin, etc., 882 66 

 Total expenditures to Dec. 15, 1905, 



Unexpended l)alance, 



Of tliis balance there remains from the 

 deficit appropriation for bills of 1904, 

 From appropriation for salaries, etc., 



Amount carried forward. 



$865 15 

 828 12 



$1,693 27 



$76,685 09 



72,190 94 



$4,494 15 



