By the special disbursing agent, Coast and Geodetic Survey, on By the disbursing clerk, Bureau of the Census, on account of By special disbursing agents, Bureau of Fisheries_ By customs officers on account of witnesses' fees in steamboat investigations____. By warrants drawn on the Treasurer of the United States to satisfy accounts settled by the Auditor for the State and other Departments, classified as follows: $916,079. 19 2, 333, 458. 25 12, 130. 68 48, 349. 16 35, 995. 47 342.65 Bureau of Fisheries_-_ Bureau of Lighthouses_. Bureau of the Census___. Coast and Geodetic Survey-- Total____ 5, 403. 17 47, 072. 55 MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS REMITTED TO THE TREASURY IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW, Coast and Geodetic Survey: FISCAL YEAR 1912. Sale of Charts, Coast Pilots, and Tide Tables Sale of property, outside work, etc. Bureau of Standards: Standardizing and testing weights, etc-- Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization: Head tax---- Exclusive privileges-- Naturalization fees.. Court costs.. $14,315. 82 1, 190.76 12, 690. 34 3, 319, 804. 00 14, 306. 33 204, 639.50 26.57 25, 987.00 Fines Telephone rentals and sale of ice___ 1, 958. 75 This sum includes $36,137.52 reimbursed to "Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor," on account of supplies furnished to the different Bureaus of the Department. Bureau of Lighthouses: Sale of condemned property, rentals, etc. Other receipts: Tonnage tax Annual yacht tax. Total____. $12, 812. 02 12, 004. 65 4, 178, 761. 14 1, 156, 010. 75 8, 768. 34 5, 343, 540. 23 BALANCES OF APPROPRIATIONS. The following unexpended balances of appropriations were turned into the surplus fund June 30, 1912, in accordance with the act of June 20, 1874 (18 Stat., 110-111): Salaries, Office of Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1910-----Salaries and expenses, special agents, Department of Commerce and Labor, 1909--- Salaries and expenses, special agents, Department of Com- Rent, Department of Commerce and Labor, 1910--- Salaries and expenses, special attorneys, examiners, etc., Bureau Salaries, Bureau of Manufactures, 1910-. Collating tariffs of foreign countries, 1910_. Ferry steamer, Immigrant Service, San Francisco, Cal., special fund Ellis Island Immigrant Station__ Ellis Island Immigrant Station, 1910 Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Labor, 1910_ Salaries, Bureau of Labor, 1910. Library, Bureau of Labor, 1910___. Salaries, Bureau of Standards, 1910 Equipment, Bureau of Standards, 1910_. General expenses, Bureau of Standards, 1910___ $4,514. 39 1.52 7,489.57 2, 342. 52 33.61 3. 54 2,782. 62 48, 754. 10 1,077. 44 1, 238. 54 2,308. 82 455.93 1, 195. 47 3, 454. 84 379.05 18. 55 4,818.99 228. 94 228. 09 Gaslight standards, Bureau of Standards, 1910__- Improvement and care of grounds, Bureau of Standards, 1910-- Preliminary expenses of the Thirteenth Census, 1909-10___. Party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1909-10_. Party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1910__. General expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1910___. Pay, etc., of officers and men, vessels, Coast Survey, 1910--- Salaries, Bureau of Fisheries, 1910_. Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, 1909_ 44.90 36.37 2, 370. 10 139, 563. 39 1,890. 75 8,929. 19 9, 310. 51 11, 830. 64 459. 34 16, 725. 15 189.85 15, 029.90 12.45 Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, 1910. Fish hatcheries, Alaska----- Lake County, Colo., fish hatchery Mammoth Springs, Ark., fish hatchery- Vermont fish hatchery. Supplies for native inhabitants of Alaska, 1910.......... Repairs to public buildings, Pribilof Islands, Alaska, 1910--- Special examiners, etc., Division of Naturalization, 1910‒‒‒‒‒‒ Salaries, Bureau of Navigation, 1910---- Supplies of lighthouses, 1910.. Repairs and incidental expenses of lighthouses, 1909_. Repairs and incidental expenses of lighthouses, 1910__. $13, 523.03 138. 37 55.83 56. 17 10.30 424. 91 14.38 4, 543. 29 3,286.79 17, 973. 32 16, 401. 08 311.39 4, 090. 17 138. 10 16, 472. 06 175.00 24, 238.57 62, 493. 09 13, 263. 83 Salaries, Bureau of Statistics, 1910--- Collecting statistics relating to commerce, 1910. Salaries, Office of Supervising Inspector General, Steamboat-Inspection Service, 1910.. Salaries, Bureau of Lighthouses, 1910___ Expenses of buoyage, 1910______ Expenses of fog signals, 1910-- Porto Rican lighthouse service____. Guantanamo lighthouse service----. Ambrose Channel Bend range lights, N. Y.---. Bellevue range lights, Delaware River____ Goose Island Flats lights, Del------ Neebish Channel lights, St. Marys River, Mich., 1910_. St. Johns River lighted buoy, Fla---- South East Shoal, Lake Erie, Light Vessel, 1910__ Porto Rico, tender for--- Lake Superior, tender for--- Fort San Jacinto, Tex., Lighthouse Depot-- Duluth Harbor North Pier, Minn., Light Station___ Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii, Light Station___. Molokai, Hawaii, Light Station_-_ Rock of Ages, Mich., Light Station___. Total 873.36 22.33 46. 66 1,344 60 32, 314. 73 23, 339. 55 3, 878. 13 1,791. 20 12, 000. 00 4, 693. 28 2,875. 21 494. 58 13.478. 00 277.78 3,991. 84 5, 152.68 7,790. 90 1, 616. 98 2,995. 48 259.52 13, 849. 17 1,375. 12 1, 122. 66 170.83 1.45 3. 63 1, 671. 50 602, 759.92 APPOINTMENT DIVISION. POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT. The accompanying table shows by bureaus the positions in the Department on August 24, 1912, and the increase or decrease in each bureau as compared with July 1, 1911. The figures do not include the following employments, appointment to which is not made by the Secretary: Crews on vessels in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, which consist of 367 employments, 156 of which were filled by persons paid by the insular government of the Philippine Islands; employments of persons in rodding, chaining, recording, heliotroping, etc., in field parties of the Survey, of which there were 1,308; temporary employments in the field operations of the Bureau of Fisheries, of which there were 3,868; emergency employments of guards, interpreters, stenographers, etc., in the field service of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, of which there were 1,332; and mechanics, skilled tradesmen, laborers, etc., employed in field construction work in the Lighthouse Service, of which there were 2,765; nor do they include certain other employments, such as clerks of courts, collectors and surveyors of customs, etc., aggregating 2,956, connected with other services of the Government, and employed occasionally in connection with the work of this Department. The total miscellaneous employments not included is 12,596. The status of positions is shown as of August 24, 1912, for the reason that the legislative, executive and judicial and the sundry civil appropriation acts were not approved until August 23 and 24, respec. tively. The status of positions in the Department on July 1, 1912, was substantially the same as shown In the table for July 1, 1911. * Employees engaged in work in the field for a part of each year with headquarters in Washington are treated as within the District of Columbia. • Decrease is due to the discontinuance of mechanics, laborers, etc., who are now included in the employments under field construction work, and to the discontinuance of officers and crews of vessels now out of commission. • Does not include 5 members of the visiting committee. • Decrease in positions reported last year for the Bureaus of Manufactures and Statistics, consolidated by operation of law into the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. • Decrease 526, increase 77, leaving a net decrease of 449, against a net increase of 155 in the fiscal year 1911. PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS. During the fiscal year and up to October 1, 1912, 21 appointments were made to presidential positions. In each instance selection was made on the basis of ascertained or demonstrated fitness rather than political considerations. It is interesting to note that of the 21 appointments made 16 appointees were taken from or had been in the classified service. Of the remaining 5, 3 appointments were made of persons from outside the service because competent ones could not be found within it who would accept service in Alaska and 2 were of persons who were highly recommended because of their well-known qualifications. CHANGES IN THE PERSONNEL. The following tables give a summary of the changes in the personnel of the Department during the fiscal year. The figures do not include changes in the Thirteenth Decennial Census force. Includes appointments under Executive orders, reinstatements, transfers within the Department, and transfers to the Department from other departments or independent offices. 73861°-C & L 1912 |