Obrázky stránek
PDF
ePub
[ocr errors]

made to the Department of Commerce for printing and binding and for stationery and other supplies. The cost of printing was $163,639.24 during the fiscal year 1921, $144,508.61 during the fiscal year 1922, and $181,442.45 during the fiscal year 1923. The cost of stationery and other supplies is not given in the published reports.

Prior to January 1, 1923, the expenses of the Bureau of Customs Statistics in New York, which compiled the monthly foreign trade statistics, were paid from the appropriation for collecting the revenue from customs, made to the Treasury Department. The annual cost of this work was about $180,000. The act of January 5, 1923 (42 Stat. L., 1109) transferring the compilation of statistics to the Department of Commerce also provided that the portion of the appropriation for collecting the revenue from customs used for statistical work should also be transferred to the Department of Commerce.

In New York, Boston, San Francisco, and New Orleans, the district offices of the Bureau occupy quarters in public buildings, for which no charge is made against the appropriations to the Bureau, the expenses of maintenance and operation being charged to the general appropriations made to the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for this work in all public building.

The statement for the fiscal year 1913 covers the period from the creation of the Bureau on August 23, 1912 to June 30, 1913. For the period from July I to August 11, 1913 the following amounts were expended from the appropriations for the Bureaus of Statistics and of Manufactures: Salaries, Bureau of Statistics, $5,189.39; Salaries, Bureau of Manufactures $10,598.67; collecting statistics relating to commerce, $534.44.

1913

1914

1915

Appropriation Expenditure Appropriation Expenditure Appropriation Expenditure

Increased compensation

District and co-operative office service.

Transporting remains of officers.

Transportation of families and effects of officers

Collecting information regarding trade restrictions

APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEARS 1913 TO 1924, INCLUSIVE.

Salaries, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce

$89,422.28 $89,147.31

$104,860.00

$103,145.55

Collating tariffs of foreign countries..

10,000.00

Promoting commerce

60,000.00

9,979.75
58,162.88

10,000.00
60,000.00

9,667.10

$121,572.92
416.67

$118,612.67
404.16

59,681.75

75,000.00

Investigating cost of production.

....

50,000.00

48,893.36

50,000.00

Commercial attaches

100,000.00

Promoting commerce, South and Central America.

50,000.00

73,449.55
48,549.31
85,790.47
47,640.10

Promoting commerce in the Far East.

Export industries

China Trade Act...

and employees.

and regulations.

Compilation of directory of foreign buyers..

Investigation sources of crude rubber.

Customs statistics

Disposition and handling of raw materials and manufactures.

Total

$159,422.28

$157,289.94

$224,860.00 $221,387.76 $396,989.59

$374,446.26

[graphic]

APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEARS 1913 TO 1924, INCLUSIVE_Continued.

[blocks in formation]

Salaries, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Collating tariffs of foreign countries..
Promoting commerce ...,
Investigating cost of production.
Commercial attaches
Promoting commerce, South and Central America.
Promoting commerce in the Far East.
Export_industries
China Trade Act..
National Security and Defense a
Increased compensation
District and co-operative office service.
Disposition and handling of raw materials and

manufactures.
Transporting remains of officers..
Transportation of families and effects of officers

and employees.
Collecting information regarding trade restrictions

and regulations.
Compilation of directory of foreign buyers..
Investigation sources of crude rubber.
Customs statistics

45,853.69
111,478.79

45,853.69
11,478.79

Total

$421,280.00

$417,008.48

$505,640.00

$475,846.11

$545,452.48

$519,970.97

a Allotment from appropriation made to the President. b Indefinite appropriation sufficient to pay amount needed. APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEARS 1913 TO 1924 INCLUSIVE-Continued.

[graphic]

Salaries, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Collating tariffs of foreign countries.
Promoting commerce.
Investigating cost of production.
Commercial attaches
Promoting commerce, South and Central America
Promoting commerce in the Far East.
Export industries
China Trade Act.
National Security and Defense a
Increased compensation
District and co-operative office service.
Disposition and handling of raw materials and

manufactures.
Transporting remains of officers.
Transportation of families and effects of officers

and employees.
Collecting information regarding trade restrictions

and regulations.
Compilation of directory of foreign buyers.
Investigation sources of crude rubber
Customs statistics

a Allotment from appropriation made to the President. b Indefinite appropriation sufficient to pay amount needed. APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEARS 1913 TO 1924, INCLUSIVEConcluded.

[graphic]

* Figured on cash basis.

b Indefinite appropriation sufficient to pay the amount needed. € Appropriation made for Department of Commerce as a whole.

Available also in fiscal year 1924. The total appropriation was $500,000, of which $100,000 was allotted to the Department of Agri-
culture and $42,300 to the Bureau of Standards.

e Appropriation for 1923 available also in 1924.

p of this amount $96,675.68 was transferred from the appropriation for collecting revenues from customs and $180,000 was appro-
priated directly to the Bureau; the appropriation of $180,000 is available for both the fiscal years 1923 and 1924.

8 Transferred from appropriation for collecting revenues from customs; in addition the unexpended balance of appropriation of
$180,000, made in fiscal year 1923, also available in fiscal year 1924.

« PředchozíPokračovat »