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REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 163

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report," $6,183.66, to correspond with the certificates of the disbursing officer of the Treasury Department.

The quarterly accounts-current, bank-book, check-book, and journals have likewise been examined and found to be correct. 

The balance to the credit of the Institution proper, on the 1st of January, 1881, in the hands of the Treasurer of the United States, available for the current operations of the Institution, is $20,934.52.

Respectfully submitted. 
PETER PARKER,
W. T. SHERMAN,
JOHN MACLEAN,
Executive Committee, Smithsonian Institution.
WASHINGTON, January 18, 1881.