APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES: BY FIVE-YEAR INTERVALS, FISCAL YEARS 1875 TO I9IO, AND ANNUALLY, 1910 TO 1924 Special repairs, Continued Rent and storage of Branch office, furniture and filing cases Patent Office models Panama-Pacific Exposition Fiscal Appropriation Expenditure Appropriation Expenditure Appropriation Refunding excess of Expenditure Appropriation Expenditure a Transferring models and installing shelving, etc. b Expenditures do not include amounts liquidated after June 30, 1923. Of this appropriation $10,000 was continued and made available in 1922. d Refunding done since 1921 without appropriation. APPROPRIATION AND EXPENDITURES: BY FIVE-YEAR INTERVALS, FISCAL YEARS 1875 TO 1910, AND ANNUALLY, 1910 TO 1924-Concluded a Included under photolithographing. b Expenditures do not include amounts liquidated after June 20, 1921. • Figures not on an accrual basis, and therefore not strictly comparable with the figures in other columns. d Does not include appropriation for increase of compensation, or bonus." The charges which the Patent Office makes for its services and most of its publications usually aggregate more than the entire expense of operation, so that this bureau has become one of the revenue producing organizations of the government. This, however, was probably not the intention of the framers of the Constitution, whose sole purpose in making provision for patents was "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts." The accumulated surplus earnings of the Patent Office up to June 30, 1923, amounted to $8,463,314.79. The fiscal year 1923 was one of the very few years in the history of the Patent Office in which the expenditures exceeded the receipts from its operations. The statements which follow give in some detail, the receipts of the Patent Office from its operations during the fiscal year 1923, and a comparison of total receipts from operations and expenditures during the fiscal years 1914 to 1923, respectively. The last table in Chapter I1 gives a summary of certain business operations and receipts and expenditures of the Patent Office by calendar years, since the inauguration of the present patent system. Receipts from sale of Official Gazette and other publications through Government Printing Office (estimated)...... Total receipts from all services.... Total expenditures (including increase of compensation). Excess of expenditures over receipts.... a Deduct. 1 Supra, pp. 30, 31. $8,636.07 6,796.46 a $1,839.61 $3,002.486.36 24,000.00 $3,026,486.36 3,112,022.07 $85,535.71 APPENDIX 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY1 EXPLANATORY NOTE The bibliographies appended to the several monographs aim to list only those works which deal directly with the services to which they relate, their history, activities, organization, methods of business, problems, etc. They are intended primarily to meet the needs of those persons who desire to make a further study of the services from an administrative standpoint. They thus do not include the title of publications of the services themselves, except in so far as they treat of the services, their work and problems. Nor do they include books or articles dealing merely with technical features other than administrative of the work of the services. In a few cases explanatory notes have been appended where it was thought they would aid in making known the character or value of the publication to which they relate. After the completion of the series the bibliographies may be assembled and separately published as a bibliography of the Administrative Branch of the National Government. BIBLIOGRAPHY U. S. President's commission on economy and efficiency. Report of the investigation of the United States patent office . . . Dec. 9, 1912. ... Washington, [Govt. print. off.,] 1912. 624 p. (62nd Cong., 3rd sess. House. Doc. II10) Serial 6439 Bibliography of the United States patent office, 1789-1912, p. 519-535. OFFICIAL U. S. Commissioner of patents. Additional examiners in Patent office . . . [Washington, no publisher 1848] 15 p. (30th Cong., Ist sess. House. ex. Doc. 16) Serial 516 |