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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

I, 000

I, 500 360

I, 200

I, 200

900

900 360

2, 500 I, 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
$2,000-increase of . . . . .

Assistant at $1,500 in place of assistant at $1,400-in-
crease of.

Smithsonian Division: Assistant at $1,500 in place of assistant
at $1,400-increase of..

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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:

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Total number of deposits received (material of all classes, including duplicates).

Total number of registrations.

Total communications received, including parcels, but excluding deposits noted above..

Total communications sent out (including letters written).

219,024

109, 074

110, 198

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.

RECEIPTS

COPYRIGHT

FICE:

OF

Receipts and ex

penses

Fees covered in during the fiscal year 1909-10 as above... $104, 644. 95

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The amount expended for salaries ($87,761.97) includes the sum of $4,680 paid in salaries to certain employees who have been classifying and crediting the old deposits received prior to 1897. This expenditure is chargeable to arrears. The current expenses of the Office are therefore considerably more than met by the current receipts.

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 219,024 such articles were received. The value of those drawn up into the collections of the Library far exceeded the amount of net cash earnings.

The work of the Copyright Office is divided into two parts: (1) The current business, covering applications received since the reorganization of the Office under the Register in 1897; (2) The arrears, the classification, crediting, and indexing of the entries and deposits prior to 1897 (i. e., from 1870, when the copyright business was first placed under the Librarian of Congress).

On the 6th day of July, 1910, when the report of the Copyright Office was submitted, the remittances received up to the third mail of the day had been recorded and acknowledged; the account books of the bookkeeping division were written up and posted to June 30, and the accounts rendered to the Treasury Department were settled up to and including the month of June, while earned fees to June 30, inclusive, had been paid into the Treasury. All copyright applica

tions received up to and including June 30 had been passed upon and refunds made.

The total unfinished business for the full thirteen years from July 1, 1897, to June 30, 1910, amounts to but $383.98, against a total completed business for the same period of $963,067.70.

At the close of business on July 6, 1910, the works deposited for copyright registration up to and including June 30 had all been recorded except 10 books, 2 pieces of music, 2 dramas and 15 photographs, 29 works in all, and the certificates and notices of entry had been made, revised, and mailed.

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, had been brought forward, in the new series, to Part 1, Group 1, books, etc., Vol. 7, No. 26, June 30; Part 1, Group 2, pamphlets, leaflets, etc., Vol. 7, Nos. 22–26, June; Part 2, periodicals, Vol. 5, Nos. 22-26, June; Part 3, musical compositions, Vol. 5, Nos. 22-26, June; Part 4, works of art, etc., Vol. 5, Nos. 22-26, June.

ness prior to July 1, 1897

During the fiscal year about 17,500 articles received prior Copyright busito July 1, 1897, were examined preparatory to being credited to their respective entries. Entries were found for some 15,000 of these and the articles were arranged by their entry numbers to facilitate crediting later. No entries were found for about 2,500 pieces which were therefore laid aside until the entire remaining accumulation of uncredited pamphlet matter, numbering 34,444 pieces, has been examined.

During the past thirteen years the business done by the Office shows the following:

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.

I, 341, 603

2,372, 943 $963, 067. 70 $817,267.82

$145, 799. 88

deposits

During the forty years since the copyright work became a

business of the Library of Congress the total number of

entries has been 2,222,459.

Elimination of Owing to the increase of business and the pressure of new business caused by the new copyright act, without an adequate corresponding increase in the force (requested in the urgent deficiency bill of 1910), no attention could be given to the assorting of the accumulated deposits, and correspondence necessary to the reduction of the mass contemplated by the new act.

Contents of the Library June 30,

1910

INCREASE OF THE LIBRARY

Adopting the count of printed books and pamphlets made

1909, and June 30, in June, 1902, as being accurate, the total contents of the Library, inclusive of the Law Library, at the close of the past two fiscal years were as follows:

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Printed books and pamphlets...

Manuscripts (a numerical statement not feasible)

Maps and charts (volumes and pieces) .

Music (volumes and pieces).

Prints (pieces)..

Miscellaneous.

Net accessions

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a Includes the Yudin collection not hitherto enumerated.

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