a Title should be changed to "messenger." Increases in other items recommended but not granted: Legislative reference: $45,000 recommended; $40,000 granted. Carrier service: $1,320 recommended; $960 granted. Printing and binding: $225,000 recommended; $212,250 granted. Increase of Library of Congress (purchase of books): $100,000 recommended; $90,000 granted. COPYRIGHT: New item recommended but not granted: For special and temporary services in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of the Library Building . . at the discretion of the Librarian, $500, not granted. COPYRIGHT OFFICE. The report of the register of copyrights appears in full as Appendix II. The principal statistics of the business done during the year are as follows: Total number of deposits received (material of all classes, including dupli- 256, 229 Total number of registrations.. 148, 946 Total communications received, including parcels, but excluding deposits 169, 345 Total communications sent out (including letters written). 178, 963 The fees from copyrights are covered into the Treasury and not applied directly to the maintenance of the copyright office. They form a regular revenue of the Government, however, and a net revenue over the direct expenses of the office, as appears from the comparison following: RECEIPTS. Receipts and ex- Fees covered in during the fiscal year 1922-23, as above.. $149, 297.00 penses. EXPENSES. Salaries including retirement fund, as stated. $104, 516.00 1, 028. 51 105, 544. 51 Net cash earnings. 43, 752.49 The above statement includes all disbursements except the cost of furniture, of printing, and of binding, but only cash receipts. In addition to cash fees, the copyright business brings each year to the Government, in articles deposited, property to the value of many thousands of dollars. During the past fiscal year 256,229 such articles were received. The value of those drawn up into the collections of the Library far exceeded the amount of net cash earnings. right business. On the 5th day of July, 1923, when the report of the Current copyright office was submitted, the remittances received up to the third mail of the day had been recorded. The account books of the bookkeeping division were balanced for June 30, the financial statements were rendered to the Treasury Department, and all earned fees to June 30, inclusive, had been paid into the Treasury. The total unfinished business for the full 26 years from July 1, 1897, to June 30, 1923, amounts to but $3,812.07, against a total completed business for the same period of $2,528,145.50. The Catalogue of Copyright Entries, which since the transfer of its publication from the Treasury Department to the Library of Congress has been issued in four separate parts, was continued in five annual volumes, properly indexed. During the past 26 years the business done by the office was as follows: Total number of entries.. Total number of articles deposited. Total amount of fees received and applied. Net receipts above expenses for service.. 2,932, 131 5, 158, 704 $2, 528, 145.50 $385,977.95 During the 53 years since the copyright work became a business of the Library of Congress the total number of entries has been 3,812,987. сору copyright deposits. Under authority of sections 59 and 60 of the copyright Elimination of act of 1909, 19,240 volumes have been transferred to the Library from the deposits in the copyright office during the fiscal year; 5,410 books have been deposited in govern Contents of the Library, June 30, mental libraries in the District of Columbia, and 43,096 articles have been returned to copyright claimants, including 23,504 books, 4,645 prints, 2,021 periodicals, 7,080 motion-picture films, 655 photographs, 1 drama, and 5,190 pieces of music. In adition, 534 volumes of American poetry and plays have been forwarded through the order division to Brown University, to be added to 24,650, making the total number of volumes transferred 25,184. ACCESSIONS, PRINTED MATERIAL.1 (From the report of the chief of the order division, Mr. Slade.) Adopting the count of printed books and pamphlets made 1922 and June 30, in June, 1902, as accurate, the total contents of the Library, inclusive of the law library, at the close of the past two 1923. 1 For manuscripts, maps, music, and prints, see under those headings infra. |