APPENDIX 5 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS EXPLANATORY NOTE Statements showing appropriations, receipts, expenditures and other financial data for a series of years constitute the most effective single means of exhibiting the growth and development of a service. Due to the fact that Congress has adopted no uniform plan of appropriations for the several services and that the latter employ no uniform plan in respect to the recording and reporting of their receipts and expenditures, it is impossible to present data of this character according to any standard scheme of presentation. In the case of some services the administrative reports contain tables showing financial conditions and operations of the service in considerable detail; in others financial data are almost wholly lacking. Careful study has in all cases been made of such data as are available, and the effort has been made to present the results in such a form as will exhibit the financial operations of the service in the most effective way that circumstances permit. APPROPRIATIONS: 1880 TO 1918, INCLUSIVE-Continued. (1) From 1889 to 1904, inclusive, the amounts of appropriations appearing in this column include payments for transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian Exchange. APPROPRIATIONS: 1880 TO 1918, INCLUSIVE-Continued. $728,120,60 $776,690.00 $1,000,159.25 $835.577.35 $838,440.89 $997.310.00 $1,022,800.00 $1,377,170.00 (1) Appropriations for the years 1896 to 1901, inclusive, were for "Coal and gold resources of Alaska.' (2) Appropriations for the years 1898 to 1910, inclusive, were for "Surveying Forest Reserves." (3) From 1889 to 1904, inclusive, the amounts of appropriations appearing in this column include payments for transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian Exchange. APPROPRIATIONS: 1880 TO 1918, INCLUSIVE-Continued. $1,391,177.77 $1,483,820.00 $1,784,882.30 $1,757.420.00 $1,660,420.00 $1,800,580.00 $1,710,215.00 $1.477.440.00 (1) Combined with the appropriations for the geological survey beginning with the year 1910. (2) Includes researches relating to deposits of potash salts during the last seven years. (3) Appropriations for the years 1898 to 1910, inclusive, were for "Surveying Forest Reserves." (4) Bureau of Mines was created in 1910, and thereafter appropriations for these activities were made under that unit. " |