REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. XXI 



Exchanges $3,469.72 



Incidentals 2,018.20 



Explorations 500. 00 



Total 6,474.61 



The net expenditures of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 

 1896, including $11,000 paid for prizes awarded from the Hodgkins 

 fund in accordance with the recommendation of the award committee, 

 were, therefore, $62,330.90, or $6,474.61 less than the gross expenditures, 

 $68,805.57, as above stated. 



All moneys received by the Smithsonian Institution from interest, 

 sales, refunding of moneys temporarily advanced, or otherwise, are 

 deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the 

 Secretary of the Institution, and all payments are made by his checks 

 on the Treasurer of the United States. 



Your committee also presents the following statements in regard to 

 appropriations and expenditures for objects intrusted by Congress to 

 the care of the Smithsonian Institution: 



Detailed statement of disbursements from appropriations committed by Congress to the care 

 of the Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, and from balances 

 of former years. 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 



Receipts. 



Appropriated by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, " for 

 expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United 

 States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary em- 

 ployees" (sundry civil act, March 2, 1895) $17,000.00 



Disbursements from July 1, 1895, to June 30, 1896. 



Salaries or compensation: 



I curator. 12 months, at $225 $2,700.00 



1 clerk, 1 5 months 5 days, at $160 746. 67 



1 chief clerk, 2 months, at- $150 300.00 



1 clerk-* 6 mont Hat$ 120 720.00 



16 months, at $130 780.00 



1 clerk, 2 months, at $100 200.00 



16 months, at $85 510.00 



1 clerk 5.1 months 9 days, at $91.66 531.63 



1.6 days, at $100 20.00 



1 clerk 1 " months, at $80 480.00 



16 months, at $85 ., 510.00 



1 clerk, 12 months, at $75 900.00 



. | clerk, 5 months, at $75 375.00 



[laborer, 182 days, at $1.50 273.00 



, , .[6 months, at $65 390.00 



1 clerk 



16 months, at $70 420.00 



1 clerk, 6 months, at $60 360.00 



I copyist, (i months, at $50 300. 00 



5i months !i days, at $55 319.00 



stenographer, 6 days, at $60 12. 00 



