1498 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
in this or any foreign country adapted to the needs and uses of the 
scientific library of the Patent Office. 
(Stat., XX VI, 259.) 
July 19, 1890—House. 
Mr. Davip B. Henprrson, from Committee on Appropriations, sub- 
mitted report (H. 2772) to accompany bill (H. 11459). 
[Extract.] 
SmirHson1an Institution, INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, 
Washington, D. C., June 25, 1890. 
Dear Str: With reference to an item submitted by the Commissioner of Fish and 
Fisheries, in the deficiency bill (Executive Document No. 174, Fifty-first Congress, 
first session), making provision for the repayment of $210.20 to the Smithsonian 
Institution, for the international exchange of Fish Commission documents, and in 
response to your verbal request, I have the honor to present for the information of 
the Committee on Appropriations the following statement of the disbursements by 
the Smithsonian Institution on account of international exchanges for the fiscal year 
1888-89, taken from the report of the Secretary for that year (pp. 74, 75): 
EXPENSE. 
From an examination of the books of the disbursing officer it appears that the 
actual cost of the exchange service for the year has been $17,152.10, divided as 
follows: 
Salaries and compensation of employees ........-.-------------------- $11, 479. 25 
Salaries of foreign agents (London and Leipzig) -.....-.--------------- 1, 500. 00 
Pret an ee i 5 op me cm i eh 2, 555. 23 
Packing DOXGS 'W.-- -- -2os--) -sp-0ee renee a cee as aoe ee eee eee 586. 20 
Printing, postage, stationery, and miscellaneous. ...-.----------------- 1, 031. 42 
PONS Sod. oF tern so ae OR ieee ere ie ee eae 17, 152. 10 
Fifteen thousand dollars of this sum were appropriated directly by Congress for 
‘“‘the expenses of the system of international exchanges, * * * under the direc- 
tion of the Smithsonian Institution,’’ $1,363.54 were repaid to the Institution by 
Government departments to which specific appropriations had been granted for this 
purpose, leaving a deficit of $788.56, which was paid from the Smithsonian fund. 
Although all of the Government bureaus that have occasion to transmit their pub- 
lications through the Institution are not provided with funds available for defraying 
the cost of the service, it seems to have been the intention of Congress that its spe- 
cific appropriation for the exchange business should be supplemented by special 
appropriations to some of the bureaus and departments of the Government, so that 
the charge of 5 cents per pound weight imposed by the Regents in 1878 might be 
met by them. The average amount annually repaid to the Institution in this way 
during the past eleven years has been about $1,400. 
Packages. 1886-87. | 1887-88. | 1888-89. 
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Shipped: 
DGMESIC SS: 2h .. -b50. 26 eee ewcscs ob ost teetee bee cee eee epee 10, 294 12, 301 17, 218 
WOoreipmtiss toe «8425 RS h Sli Ya TSE eee Pee ee ee see eee 41,424 62, 306 58, 035 
The disbursement in detail of $15,000, the appropriation to this Institution for 
international exchanges for 1888-89, is given in House Miscellaneous Document 43, 
Fifty-first Congress, first session, a marked copy of which is herewith inclosed. 
