herewith. As my first communication (of January 31, 1906) to the House committee, to which was referred H. R. 195, covered the ground generally, I quote it in full as part of the above appendix. FINANCE The table given below exhibits the appropriations and expenditures of the Library proper and of the Copyright Office for the fiscal year, and the appropriations for the year now current. Included also are the appropriations for the equipment and care of the building and grounds, expended by the Superintendent. The allotment for printing and binding (during the past year $202,000) is no included. Distribution of card indexes. 17,305.97 b 17, 244. 3017, 112. 22 10, 000, 00 18,800.00 a Includes balance from preceding year. Appropriation 1909 includes credits $505.97 on account of sales to government institutions. Appropriation 1910 includes $444.30 credits on account of sales to government institutions. Does not include $117.47 yet to be credited. Expenditures 1910 ($17,112.22) offset by subscriptions covered into the Treasury ($28,498.09). An indebtedness of $249.55 is to be paid when amounts due through sales to government institutions have been credited in full. c Includes $500 deficiency. d Expenditures 1910 include outstanding orders. • Exclusive of $1,500 to be expended by the marshal of the Supreme Court for new books for that body. f Includes credits of $31.46 on account of sales of stationery to Superintendent, Library building and grounds. *Appropriation 1909 effective March 5-June 30, 1909. Appropriation 1910 effective December 1, 1909-June 30, 1910. † Offset by fees covered into the Treasury ($104,644.95). a Appropriations include balance from preceding year. Appropriation s The appropriations for 1910 varied from those in the year preceding only in the following particulars: Salaries (general service): General administration: Two stenographers and typewriters at $1,000 each (in place of 2 stenographers and typewriters, I at $1,200 and 1 at $720); a messenger boy at $360. Reading Room: Two attendants (for gallery and alcoves) at $480 each. Music Division: The salary of the chief of the division increased from $2,000 to $3,000 and of the chief assistant from $1,400 to $1,500. Law Library: Salary of Law Librarian made $3,000 (covering the compensation of $500 for supervision of preparation of the new index to the Statutes at Large). Copyright Office: Salary of Register of Copyrights increased from $3,000 to $3,500, and later (through the urgent deficiency act of Aug. 5, 1909, in compliance with a provision of the copyright act approved Mar. 4, 1909) to $4,000; salary of Assistant Register of Copyrights increased from $2,500 to $3,000; and the following additional positions: 1 at $1,800, 2 at $1,600 each, 2 at $1,000 each, 2 at $600 each, and a messenger boy at $360. Carrier service: Two messengers at $40 per month each, to serve during the session of Congress and for services in connection with the House Office Building. Index to the Statutes at Large: Phraseology of the item changed to read as follows: "For continuing the preparation of an index to the Statutes at Large of the United States, $10,000, to be expended by the Librarian of Congress for the salaries of the persons whom he employs to prepare the index and for incidental expenses; the scope, classification, and style of the index to be such as the Judiciary Committees of the two Houses of Congress shall direct or approve." Building and grounds: The appropriation for furniture, etc., reduced from $40,000 to $25,000; and the balance. ($200,000) of the fund. ($300,000) in the appropriations for the fiscal year 1908–9 provided for the completion of the construction, mechanical equipment, electric lighting, and roofing of the stack of shelving for bound newspapers and books in the southeast court of the Library building. The appropriations for 1910-11 include the following changes and additional provisions: appropriations Salaries (general service)-Reading Room: Stenographer Changes in and typewriter at $900, telephone operator at $600, 2 1910-11 assistants at $600 each (for new stack). Carrier service: "For services in connection with the Senate and House Office Building $960 or so much thereof as may be necessary" in place of "2 messengers at $40 per month each, to serve during the session of Congress and for services in connection with the House Office Building." Law Library: One assistant at $480. Index to the Statutes at Large: The estimate submitted for this was $10,000. At the hearing, however, I stated that one-half this amount would complete and see into print the volume covering the general and permanent law prior to 1873. Upon this representation the amount was cut down from $10,000 to $5,000, with the purpose of letting the work conclude there (vol. I, already issued, having covered the permanent and general law subsequent to 1873). Copyright Office: One clerk at $1,500, 3 clerks at $900, 1 clerk at $480, 1 junior messenger at $360. Card indexes: The appropriation for services in connection with the distribution of card indexes increased from $16,800 to $18,000. Increase of the Library of Congress: The item made to read: For purchase of books for the Library, including payment in advance for subscription books and society publications, etc. Law books: The item made to read: For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, including payment in advance for subscriptions to law periodicals. Building and grounds: A further sum of $10,000 appropriated for the completion of the construction, mechanical equipment, electric lighting, and roofing of a stack of shelving for bound newspapers and books in the southeast court of the Library building. Library estimates, 1910-11: The following positions asked for in the estimates for 1910-11 were not granted: Administration: Clerk. Clerk. Order and Accession: Assistant in charge publications. One messenger. Reading Room: Evening service: 2 assistants at $600 each (for Documents: One assistant. new stack). Music: One assistant. Law Library: One stenographer and typewriter. One messenger. Copyright Office: One clerk. One clerk. One clerk a One clerk. Increases of salary recommended, not granted: Binding: Assistant in charge at $1,500 in place of assistant in charge at $1,400-increase of..... Periodical: Chief of division at $2,500 in place of chief of division at $2,000-increase of.. Documents: Assistant at $1,500 in place of assistant at $1,400 $1,200 1,000 I, 500 360 I, 200 I, 200 900 900 360 2, 500 1, 600 I, 500 480 $100 500 increase of. a But two additional clerks at $900 not asked for were granted. 100 Maps and Charts: Assistant at $1,500 in place of assistant at $1,400-increase of...... Prints: Chief of division at $3,000 in place of chief of division at Assistant at $1,500 in place of assistant at $1,400-in- Smithsonian Division: Assistant at $1,500 in place of assistant COPYRIGHT OFFICE Statistics The report of the Register of Copyrights appears in full COPYRIGHT: as Appendix II. It includes the text of the copyright bills introduced in the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, and of the opinions of the Attorney-General and of the Treasury Department bearing upon the copyright law. The principal statistics of the business done since the going into effect of the new copyright statute are as follows: Total number of deposits received (material of all classes, including duplicates). 1,095.00 67.75 66.70 63.00 104, 644.95 Total number of registrations.. 219,024 109, 074 Total communications received, including parcels, but excluding deposits noted above.. 110, 198 Total communications sent out (including letters written).. 189, 708 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. |