Sunday opening: Item made to read "" ates to be fixed by the librarian, $13,125." The following additional provision include Payments for piecework and work by the om the appropriations for the fiscal year 1 gislative reference and card-index services, oliday opening, and special and temporary s uthorized from July 1, 1924, to June 30, 19 xed by the librarian.

Printing and binding: Appropriation incr 250,000 to $300,000.

Library Building: Appropriation incre 01,138 to $104,398.

The following items made to read: For extra services * * * for the oper brary Building on Sundays and on legal tes to be fixed by the librarian, $3,550. For special and temporary services

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g extra special services of regular employ scretion of the librarian, at rates to be fi rarian, $500.

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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 278,361 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 7th day of July, 1925, when the report of the Current copy. 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 prepared for the Treasury Department, and all earned fees to June 30, inclusive, had been paid into the Treasury.

The total unfinished business for the full 28 years from July 1, 1897, to June 30, 1925, amounts to but $2,504.94 against a total completed business for the same period of $2,857,599.95.

During the past 28 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..

Total expenditure for service. -

Net receipts above expenses for service..

$3, 260, 673

$5, 710, 510 $2,857, 599. 95 $2,396, 678. 45

$454, 195. 01

During the 55 years since the copyright work became

a business of the Library of Congress the total number of entries has been 4,141,529.

copyright deposits.

Under authority of sections 59 and 60 of the copyright Elimination of act of 1909, 23,070 volumes have been transferred to the Library from the deposits in the copyright office during the fiscal year; 7,643 books have been deposited in governmental libraries in the District of Columbia, and 59,534 articles have been returned to copyright claimants, including 41,033 books, 6,060 prints, 1,972 periodicals, 8,680 motion-picture films, 1,530 photographs, and 259 pieces of music,

In addition, 604 volumes of American poetry and plays have been forwarded through the accessions division to Brown University, to be added to 25,544, making the total number of volumes transferred on exchange account 26,148.

Library, June 30,

CATALOGUE OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES

The catalogue of Copyright Entries has always been printed and published to make up calendar-year volumes for the different classes of works catalogued. During the calendar year 1924 and up to June 30 of this year, only Part 1, Group 1, of the catalogue, containing the titles for books proper, has been completely printed and distributed.

Owing to a deficiency in printing appropriations, the printing of the catalogue was stopped from March to June, and in 1925 the printing of the catalogue was discontinued from the latter part of February until the end of June. Printing has only been resumed since July 1, 1925.

ACCESSIONS, PRINTED MATERIAL

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(From the report of the chief of the division of accessions, Mr Martin A. Roberts)

Adopting the count of printed books and pamphlets Contents of the made in June, 1902, as accurate, the total contents of the 1994, and June 30, Library, inclusive of the law library, at the close of the past two fiscal years were as follows:

1925.

1 For manuscripts, maps, music, and prints, see under those headings, infra.

Heretofore insurance, ordinance, and duplicate maps have not been incorporated in the total contents of the collection of maps. Beginning this year they have been counted, which accounts for the unusual increase shown.

The accessions of books and pamphlets during the past ACCESSIONS: two years, in detail, classified by source, were as follows: phlets, by sources.

Books and pam