tion of which is given on Gregory's map, paper No. 380, U. S. Geological Survey, the expedition being in charge of Mr. Earl H. Morris, a regular member of the scientific staff of the above institution. February 19, 1924, to Mr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C., to conduct archaeological explorations during the spring of 1924 at the new National Monument, Carlsbad Cavern, located in southeastern New Mexico, near the town of Carlsbad, it being understood that Dr. William T. Lee of that society will supervise the exploration and act as custodian of the monument until the work is completed. Mr. C. C. Willoughby, director Peabody Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., was on May 3, 1924, granted a renewal during 1924 of permit to examine and excavate certain ruins in the Chin Lee Valley and those tributary canyons which enter it below Mexican water; also the canyons of the San Juan River and tributaries to the north and east of Navajo Mountain in Arizona, all work to be conducted under the supervision of a person experienced in archaelogical research. May 20, 1924, to Dr. A. V. Kidder, director department of American archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., to conduct during the summer of 1924 explorations and excavations in the canyons draining the eastern and northern slopes of the Luckachukai Mountains on the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona. September 2, 1924, to Mr. Elmer G. Peterson, president Utah Agricultural College, Logan, Utah, to make excavation of cliff dwelling in the mountains west of Orderville, Utah, and Fifty Mile Mountain, and collect objects of antiquity, such collection to be deposited in the museum of that college. Mr. George Thomas, president University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, was on September 9, 1924, authorized to excavate and collect archaeological material at the Whisker Ruin, situated about 12 miles directly west of Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, at the junction of First Valley and Milk Ranch draws; also being 2 miles west of Cotton Wood Wash and 3 miles east of the head of Comb Wash. Permission was also granted for the excavation of a small ruin of three rooms at the head of Fish Creek, about 8 miles west of the Whisker Ruin; these explorations being in charge of Dr. A. A. Kerr, of the archaeological department of the university, and to be completed during October, 1924. GENERAL EDUCATION BOARD This corporation, which was created by an act of Congress approved January 12, 1903, section 6 of which requires the corporation to annually file with the Secretary of the Interior a report, in writ ing, stating in detail the property, real and personal, held by the corporation, and the expenditure or other use or disposition of the same, or the income thereof during the preceding year, has for its object the promotion of education within the United States. During the past year the corporation sold its real estate amounting to $300,000, so that now its total property consists of securities and money. On June 30, 1924, the principal funds, belonging without restriction to the board, amounted to $110,534,298.18. This is invested in stocks and bonds. Of this total $36,748,088.18 has been appropriated to various educational institutions, including $4,683,333 appropriated during the year ending June 30, 1924. The sum of $8,129,036.45 was paid during the year on account of principal appropriations. The income from the above funds, together with the income from undisbursed income, amounted during the year to $6,361,821.04. The balance of income from the previous year as of June 30, 1923, amounting to $9,240,224.48, together with sundry refunds amounting to $17,590.85, and net proceeds from sale of property purchased with income in the amount of $342,502.92, increased the total to $15,962,139.29. Disbursements from income during the year were as follows: For whites: Art exhibition of work of Professor Cizek's pupils--- Endowment and general purposes_. Fellowships and scholarships--- Indiana demonstration county educational units_ Indiana State Department of Education__. Kentucky Educational Association... Lincoln school Medical schools.. Professors of secondary education_. $5,000.00 1, 113, 241. 94 667, 203. 58 63, 151. 84 31, 966. 88 6,000.00 2,281.05 166, 624. 64 1, 874, 098. 23 55, 897.94 Division of educational relations___ Educational investigation and research_. General survey of educational conditions and needs in In- Improvement of accounting systems in educational institu- National Committee on Mathematical Requirements.. Report on medical education__ Rural-school supervision Study of distribution of physicians in the United States_ Study of museums_ Survey of Greenwich, Conn., public schools---. Surveys (miscellaneous) Administration Total 2, 730. 16 100. 28 33.95 4, 711. 70 19, 228.30 18, 750.00 4,799. 87 20, 014. 90 4,686. 62 16, 966, 95 148.09 45, 498. 85 313, 870. 98 $5, 570, 436. 04 This leaves an undisbursed balance of income on June 30, 1924, of $10,391,703.25, which is invested as follows: Bonds and stocks, $10,114,906.77; cash, $187,508.90; accounts receivable, net, $89,287.58. It should be noted, however, that against this balance there are unpaid appropriations amounting to $9,657,811.09, while appropriations payable in the year ending June 30, 1926, and subsequent years amount to $465,000. The Anna T. Jeanes fund, the income to be used for negro rural schools, amounts to $200,294.22. It is invested as follows: Bonds, $181,449.22; stocks, $16,645; and cash, $2,200. The income from this fund during the year was $8,763.26. Added to the balance from the previous year, the total available income amounted to $9,497.66. Of this, $6,350.35 was appropriated and paid to various schools, leaving a balance of $3,147.31 in cash on deposit. THE FUEL ADMINISTRATION AND THE BITUMINOUS COAL COMMISSION RECORDS The authority of the department to settle claims against the Fuel Administration, conferred by Executive order of March 20, 1920, terminated on September 3, 1921, under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1921 (41 Stat. 1359), and the settlement of such claims is now under the jurisdiction of the General Accounting Office, civil division. The records of the Fuel Administration and also of the Bituminous Coal Commission remain in the custody of the department under Executive orders of July 22, 1919, March 24, 1920, and June 16, 1920, and numerous requests for information and for certified copies thereof are received. THE PERRY'S VICTORY MEMORIAL COMMISSION Section 5 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1919, entitled "An act creating a commission for the maintenance, control, care, and so forth, of the Perry's Victory Memorial on Put in Bay Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, and for other purposes" (40 Stat. 1324), provides: That said commission, through its president and treasurer, shall make, in writing, a report to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States on the first Monday in December of each year, in which shall be stated the condition of the said site and memorial as to preservation, and all receipts and disbursements of money pertaining thereto. The report of this commission for 1924 when received will be forwarded to the President for consideration, with a view to its transmission to Congress. THE CHIEF CLERK OF THE DEPARTMENT Under the law the chief clerk is chief executive officer of the department and administrative head of the divisions of the office of the Secretary, having assigned to him supervision over the clerks and other employees of the department. He also supervises, under the direction of the department budget officer, the classification and compilation of all estimates of appropriations and has general supervision of expenditures from appropriations for printing, stationery, and contingent expenses of the department, of the detailed work relating to St. Elizabeths Hospital, Freedmen's Hospital, Howard University, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, admission of attorneys and agents to practice as well as their disbarment, corporate sureties on bonds, records of the Fuel Administration and Bituminous Coal Commission, and miscellaneous matters. Under the bill making appropriation for the Interior Department for the fiscal year 1925, approved June 5, 1924, the law authorizing the chief clerk to sign official papers and documents was changed to read as follows: The chief clerk of the Department of the Interior shall be the chief executive officer of the department and may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents, including the authorization of expenditures from the contingent and other appropriations for the department, its bureaus and offices, section 3683 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding The law as thus amended affords whenever necessary a means of relief to the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries in the handling of official matters and facilitates the transaction of business. The report embodies detailed statements as to the work disposed of in his office and in the divisions under his general supervision, and shows no diminution in the volume as compared with previous years. As a member of the Department Classification Board, much time was devoted to matters pertaining to classification of employees, in accordance with the provisions of the classification act of 1923. Aside from the routine work of the board, which was quite voluminous, several hundred appeals of employees for higher classification were handled. Effective December 1, 1923, the Division of Traffic in the office of the Secretary was established, its personnel being composed of employees detailed from the bureaus. The traffic manager represents the department on the Federal Traffic Board, with which the division. maintains close contact and cooperation. A survey of the department with reference to industrial hygiene was made during the months of April, May, and June, 1924, by Mrs. Caroline H. Votaw in cooperation with Doctor O'Connor, the medical officer. In November of 1923 the Bureau of Education was moved into the Interior Department Building from the Pension Office Building. The cost thereof was nominal, most of the work being done by regular employees of the department with some assistance from the force of laborers under the Superintendent, State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. In a prior annual report attention was called to the fact that some 2,500 cases of old Patent Office models were housed in a rented building at 627 G Street NW., Washington, D. C., at a cost of $1,800 per annum, and the suggestion was made that Congress authorize their disposal. A bill looking to that end was introduced in Congress and referred to the proper committee for consideration. It is desirable that this be taken up and favorably disposed of at the coming session of Congress. The cost of operating the returns office was materially reduced as the outgrowth of discontinuing the employment of temporary employees engaged in the rearrangement of thousands of index cards and a reduction in the cost of filling jackets used. The files of this office now occupy 6,840 linear feet of shelving in the Patent Office Building, and the normal annual increase is about 200 linear feet. Receipts from furnishing photostat copies and certificates of returns office contracts amounted to approximately $410. Many photostat copies were supplied to other Government activities without cost. The office has been of material assistance to many contractors, bidders, lawyers, Government investigators, accounting and disbursing officers by furnishing them information which could not have been so readily obtained elsewhere. |