XX REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Salaries or compensation — Continued. 



1 cleaner, 92 days, at $1 $92. 00 



1 agent, 12 months, at $91.66| 1, 100. 00 



1 agent, 12 months, at $50 600.00 



Total of salaries or compensation 14, 864. 18 



General expenses : 



Freight $2,291.56 



Boxes 710.20 



Postage 200.00 



Stationery and supplies 397. 15 



Traveling expenses 357. 28 



3,956.19 



Total disbursements 18, 820. 37 



Balance July 1, 1897, to meet liabilities 179. 63 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, 1896. 



Balance July 1, 1896, as per last report $180. 92 



Disbursements. 



Freight $167. 12 



Supplies 13. 77 



180. 89 



Balance July 1, 1897 .03 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, 1895. 

 Balance July 1. 1896, as per last report $0. 21 



Balance carried, under the provisions of the Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the 

 Treasury Department to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1897. 



NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, 1897. 



Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, " for 

 continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under 

 the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or com- 

 pensation of all necessary employees, $45,000, of which sum not exceed- 

 ing $1,000 may be used for rent of building" (sundry civil act, June 11, 

 1896) $45,000.00 



The actual conduct of these investigations has been continued by the 

 Secretary in the hands of Maj. J. W. Powell, Director of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. 



Disbursements July 1, 1896, to June 30, 1897. 



Salaries or compensation : 



1 director, 12 months, at $375 $4,500.00 



1 ethnologist in charge, \ ^ ™«"t^^' ^* ^=^^0 1, 200. 00 



< 8 months, at $325 2,600.00 



1 special ethnologist, 12 months, at $200 2, 400. 00 



1 ethnologist, 1 ^ ^"*'^*^^' ^* $150 600.00 



<8month8, at $166.67 1,333.36 



1 ethnologist, ^ ^ ™o^*^^' ** $150 600.00 



(8 mouths, at $166.67 1,333.36 



1 ethnologist, 12 mouths, at $150 1, 800. 00 



1 ethnologist, n °'°^*^' ^* $125 62.50 



( 11^ mouths, at 150 ...-rr.. 1,725.00 



