XX REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Salaries or compensation — Continued. 



1 carpenter, 2 days, at $3 $6. 00 



1 painter, 4 days, at $2 8. 00 



1 agent, 12 months, at $50 600.00 



1 agent, 12 months, at $91.66J 1,100.00 



Total salaries or compensation 15, 833. 55 



General expenses : 



Freight $2,187.81 



Postage and telegraph 120. 00 



Stationery and supplies - 164. 23 



Packing "boxes 633. 80 



Traveling expenses - . 20. 45 



3,126.29 



Total disbursements $18,959.84 



Balance July 1, 1898, to meet liabilities 40. 16 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, 1897. 

 Balance July 1, 1897, as per last report $179.63 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Freight $147.19 



Postage and telegraph 1. 01 



Stationery and supplies 30. 35 



178.55 



Balance July 1,1898 1.08 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, 1896. 



Balance July 1, 1897, as per last report $0. 03 



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

 Treasury Department to the credit of the surplus fund June 30, 1898. 



■ AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, 1898. 

 RECEIPTS. 



Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, "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 4, 



1897) $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, 1897, to June 30, 1898.) 

 Salaries or compensation : 



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



1 ethnologist in charge, 12 months, at $325 3, 900. 00 



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



1 ethnologist, 12 months, at $166.67 2, 000. 04 



1 ethnologist, 12 months, at $166.67 2, 000. 04 



1 ethnologist, 12 months, at $166.67 2, 000. 04 



