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For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000;

For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $1,500;

For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to the same, $5,000;

In all, $109,500.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the Library, stationery, supplies, and all stock and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, and all incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, which sum shall be so apportioned as to prevent a deficiency therein, $7,300.

INDEX TO THE STATUTES AT LARGE: 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.

The Librarian of Congress may from time to time transfer to other governmental libraries within the District of Columbia, including the Public Library, books and material in the possession of the Library of Congress in his judgment no longer necessary to its uses, but in the judgment of the custodians of such other collections likely to be useful to them, and may dispose of or destroy such material as has become useless.

CUSTODY, CARE, AND MAINTENANCE OF LIBRARY BUILDING AND GROUNDS: For superintendent of the Library building and grounds, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; clerk, $1,600; clerk, $1,400; clerk, $1,000; 1 messenger; I assistant messenger; I telephone switchboard operator; I assistant telephone switchboard operator; captain of watch, $1,400; lieutenant of watch, $1,000; 16 watchmen; carpenter, $900; painter,

$900; foreman of laborers, $900; 14 laborers, at $480 each; 2 attendants in ladies' room, at $480 each; 4 check boys, at $360 each; mistress of charwomen, $425; assistant mistress of charwomen, $300; 45 charwomen; chief engineer, $1,500; 1 assistant engineer, $1,200; 3 assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrician, $1,500; assistant electrician, $1,000; machinist, $1,000; machinist, $900; 2 wiremen, at $900 each; plumber, $900; 3 elevator conductors, at $720 each; 9 firemen; 6 skilled laborers, at $720 each; in all, $76,905.

For extra services of employees and additional employees under the superintendent of Library building and grounds to provide for the opening of the Library building from 2 until 10 o'clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,800.

For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam apparatus, city directory, stationery, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, $32,500.

For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto, $25,000.

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, $200,000.

Provisions in “An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.”

For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library building, $1,000.

For the Library of Congress, including the Copyright Office, and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, Library of Congress, $202,000.

Provisions in "An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for prior years, and for other purposes.”

For 2 messengers, at $40 per month each, during the extra session of the Sixty-first Congress, being from March 5, 1909, until June 30, 1909, and for services in connection with the House Office Building, $312, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Provisions in "An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes."

For balance of salary of the Register of Copyrights, as provided by section 48 of the act entitled "An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright," approved March 4, 1909, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, $500.

APPENDIX II

REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR 1908–9

WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9, 1909

SIR: The copyright business and the work of the Copyright Office for the fiscal year from July 1, 1908, to June 30, 1909, inclusive, are summarized as follows:

RECEIPTS

The gross receipts during the year were $87,085.53. A balance of $1,876.63, representing trust funds and unfinished business, was on hand July 1, 1908, making a total of $88,962.16 to be accounted for. Of this amount the sum of $2,715.46, received by the Copyright Office, was refunded as excess fees or as fees for articles not registrable, and $154.50 was applied for subscriptions to the Catalogue of Copyright Entries, leaving a net balance of $86,092.20. The balance carried over to July 1, 1909, was $2,275.45 (representing trust funds, $2,193.79, and total unfinished business since July 1, 1897-twelve years-$81.66), leaving for fees applied during the fiscal year 1908-9, $83,816.75.

EXPENDITURES

Fees, etc.

The appropriation made by Congress for salaries in the Salaries Copyright Office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, was $77,800. The total expenditure for salaries was $77,586.52, or $6,230.23 less than the net amount of fees. earned and paid into the Treasury during the corresponding year. The expenditure for supplies, except furniture, including stationery and other articles, and postage on foreign mail matter, etc., was $1,067.18.

fees

The copyright fees received and paid into the United, Copyright States Treasury during the last twelve years, from July 1,

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1897, to June 30, 1909, amount to $858,422.75, while the sum used of the appropriations for salaries during that period was $729,468.07, leaving an excess of fees over appropriations used for service for the twelve years of $128,954.68.

In addition to the actual money fees received during these same twelve years, the articles deposited amount to the grand total of 2,153,919 pieces. An itemized statement of these articles is given in Exhibit G. During the fiscal year 1,146 separate works were deposited under the act of March 3, 1905, to secure an ad interim term of protection of one year in the case of books printed abroad in foreign languages.

COPYRIGHT ENTRIES AND FEES

The entries of titles for the fiscal year numbered 120,131. Of these entries 108,281 were titles of the productions of citizens or residents of the United States, and 11,850 were titles of works by foreigners. The fees for these entries were: United States, $54,140.50; foreign, $11,850, or a total of $65,990.50.

Of the foreign entries 2,749 were with certificates, and of the United States entries 29,606, or a total of 32,355 certificates, at fees amounting to $16,177.50. In addition, 1,783 copies of record were furnished for $891.50 in fees; assignments to the number of 604 were recorded and certified, at a charge of $720; and search fees charged to the amount of $37.25. The total copyright fees for the year amounted to $83,816.75. The details of the Copyright Office business and applied fees are set out in Exhibits A, B, and C.

The number of entries in each class from July 1, 1908, to June 30, 1909, as compared with the number of entries made in the previous year, is shown in Exhibit F.

COPYRIGHT DEPOSITS

Articles de pos- The various articles deposited in compliance with the copyright law, which have been receipted for, stamped, credited, indexed, and catalogued during the fiscal year, amount to 217,869. The number of these articles in each class for the twelve fiscal years is shown in Exhibit G.

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