Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1879
United States Patent Office
Washington, January 30, 1880
Sir:
In compliance with the requirements of section 494 of the Revised Statutes, I respectfully submit to Congress the following report for the year ending December 31, 1879:
Receipts
Detailed statement of all moneys received for patents, for copies
of records or drawings, or from any other source whatever
Applications
Cash received $565,630.00
Cash refunded 1,680.00
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Net cash 563,950.00
Certificates of deposit 59,653.00
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Total cash and certificates 623,603.00
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Copies
Cash received 48,328.58
Cash refunded 1,541.70
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Net cash 46,786.88
Certificates of deposit 1,029.66
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Total cash and certificates 47,816.54
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Recording assignments
Cash received 20,622.05
Cash refunded 569.60
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Net cash 20,052.45
Certificates of deposit 345.25
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Total cash and certificates 20,397.70
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For subscription to Official Gazette
Cash received 7,473.37
Cash refunded 61.04
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Net cash 7,412.33
Certificates of deposit 266.00
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Total cash and certificates 7,678.33
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Registration of labels
Cash received 3,240.00
Cash refunded 61.64
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Net cash 2,340.00
Certificates of deposit 216.00
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Total cash and certificates 2,556.00
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Proceeds of sale of scrap iron, brass
and copper
Cash received 1,879.90
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Aggregates
Cash received 647,173.90
Cash refunded 4,752.34
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Net cash 642,421.56
Certificates of deposit 61,509.91
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Total cash and certificates 703,931.47
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Expenditures
Amount expended under the several appropriations, from
January 1, 1879, to January 1, 1880
Salaries $398,761.04
Gazette 29,761.87
Contingent expenses 39,919.50
Copies of drawings 18,357.53
Tracings 4,599.60
Photolithographing 37,041.68
Scientific library 1,197.75
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Total 529,638.67
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Receipts over expenditures
Total receipts 703,931.47
Total expenditures 529,638.97
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Receipts over expenditures 174,292.50
Statement of balance in the Treasury of the United States on
account of the Patent Fund
Amount to the credit of the fund January 1, 1879 $1,246,514.06
Amount of receipts during year 1879 703,931.47
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Total 1,950,445.53
Deduct expenditures for year 1879 529,638.97
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Balance January 1, 1880 1,426,806.56
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Summary of the business of the Office
Applications for patent, including designs 20,659
Applications for reissue 634
Application for registration of trade marks 1,293
Applications for registration of labels 576
Caveats filed 2,620
Patents issued, including designs 12,725
Patents reissued 488
Patents extended None
Patents expired during the year, exclusive of designs 3,461
Patents withheld for non-payment of final fee 1,317
Trade marks registered 872
Labels registered 855
Number of patents issued to the several States and Territories,
with the ratio of population to each patent granted; also, the
number of patents issued to subjects or citizens of foreign
governments
States and Territories Patents One to
and every
designs
Alabama 61 16,344
Arizona Territory -- --
Arkansas 28 17,303
California 353 1,649
Colorado 29 1,626
Connecticut 569 945
Dakota Territory 9 4,500
Delaware 24 5,209
District of Columbia 122 1,808
Florida 9 20,916
Georgia 74 16,002
Idaho Territory 3 6,861
Illinois 949 2,676
Indiana 359 4,681
Iowa 309 3,865
Kansas 81 4,609
Kentucky 156 8,468
Louisiana 59 12,321
Maine 112 5,598
Maryland 220 3,550
Massachusetts 1,134 403
Michigan 391 3,037
Minnesota 101 4,416
Mississippi 45 18,398
Missouri 283 6,082
Montana Territory 4 9,974
Nebraska 48 2,715
Nevada 29 2,025
New Hampshire 95 3,351
New Jersey 587 1,544
New Mexico Territory 2 55,652
New York 2,556 1,717
North Carolina 55 19,480
Ohio 902 2,955
Oregon 19 5,363
Pennsylvania 1,369 2,573
Rhode Island 101 1,138
South Carolina 36 19,600
Tennessee 91 13,830
Texas 142 5,767
Utah Territory 7 14,226
Vermont 70 4,722
Virginia 107 11,450
Washington Territory 7 5,347
West Virginia 49 9,021
Wisconsin 215 4,953
Wyoming Territory 5 2,304
United States Army 6 --
United States Navy 5 --
Total 12,077
Of the patents, including designs, there were granted to the
Citizens of the United States 12,077
Subjects of Great Britain, including Canada 364
Subjects of France 91
Subjects of Germany 128
Subjects of other foreign governments 65
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Total 12,725
Comparative statement of the business of the Office, from 1837 to
1879, inclusive
Years Applica- Caveats Patents Cash Cash Surplus
tions Filed Issued Received Expended
1837 435 $29,289.08 $33,506.98
1838 520 42,123.54 37,402.10 $4,721.44
1839 425 37,260.00 34,543.51 2,716.49
1840 765 228 473 38,056.51 39,020.67
1841 847 312 495 40,413.01 52,666.87
1842 761 391 517 36,505.68 31,241.48 5,264.20
1843 819 315 531 35,315.81 30,766.96 4,538.85
1844 1,045 380 502 42,509.26 36,244.73 6,264.53
1845 1,246 452 502 51,076.14 39,395.65 11,680.49
1846 1,272 448 619 50,264.16 46,158.71 4,105.45
1847 1,531 553 572 63,111.19 41,878.35 21,232.84
1848 1,628 607 660 67,576.69 58,905.84 8,670.85
1849 1,955 595 1,070 80,752.78 77,716.44 3,036.54
1850 2,193 602 995 86,927.05 80,100.95 6,816.10
1851 2,258 760 869 95,738.61 86,916.93 8,821.68
1852 2,639 996 1,020 112,656.34 95,916.91 16,739.43
1853 2,673 901 958 121,527.45 132,869.83
1854 3,324 868 1,902 163,789.84 167,146.32
1855 4,435 906 2,024 216,459.35 179,540.33 36,919.02
1856 4,960 1,024 2,502 192,588.02 199,931.02
1857 4,771 1,010 2,910 196,132.01 211,582.09
1858 5,364 943 3,710 203,716.16 193,193.74 10,592.42
1859 6,225 1,097 4,538 245,942.15 210,278.41 35,663.74
1860 7,653 1,084 4,819 256,352.59 252.820.80 3,531.79
1861 4,643 700 3,340 137,354.44 221,491.91
1862 5,038 824 3,521 215,754.99 182,810.39 32,944.60
1863 6,014 787 4,170 195,593.29 189,414.14 6,179.15
1864 6,972 1,063 5,020 240,919.98 229,868.00 11,051.98
1865 10,664 1,937 6,616 348,791.84 274,199.34 74,593.50
1866 15,269 2,723 9,450 495,665.38 361,724.28 133,941.10
1867 21,276 3,597 13,015 646,581.92 639,263.32 7,318.60
1868 20,420 3,705 13,378 684,565.86 628,679.77 52,866.09
1869 19,271 3,624 13,986 693,145.81 486,430.78 206,715.03
1870 19,171 3,273 13,321 669,476.76 557,149.19 112,307.57
1871 19,472 3,624 13,033 678,716.46 560.595.08 118,121.38
1872 18,246 3,090 13,590 699,726.39 665,591.36 34,135.03
1873 20,414 3,248 12,864 703,191.77 691.178.98 12,012.79
1874 21,602 3,181 13,599 738,278.17 679,288.41 58,989.76
1875 21,638 3,094 16,288 743,453.36 721,657.71 21,795.65
1876 21,425 2,697 17,026 757,987.65 652,542.60 105,445.05
1877 20,308 2,869 13,619 732,342.85 613,152.62 119,190.23
1878 20,260 2,755 12,935 725,375.55 593,082.89 132,292.66
1879 20,059 2,620 12,725 703,931.47 529,638.97 174,292.50
The commissioners designated by law to superintend the reconstruction of the Patent Office building will soon submit their report, which will present a most satisfactory exhibit of the progress of the work up to the close of the last calendar year.
Appeals from the Commissioner of Patents to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, while authorized in ex parte cases, are by section 4911 interdicted in interference cases -- the very class in which the right of appeal would seem to be most important. I recommend that section 4911 be so modified as to provide for appeals from the Commissioner of Patents to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in interference cases.
As the law now stands, (Rev. Stats., Sec. 4898,) an assignment of letters patent may remain unrecorded for any period of less than three months, and yet prevail over a subsequent assignment first recorded. For three months after the date of an assignment subsequent purchasers, without notice and for valuable consideration, may be unable to find in the records of the Patent Office any evidence of the existence of the assignment. The records of the Office, therefore, cannot be relied upon to disclose the condition of the title to letters patent. As between bona fide purchasers for valuable consideration without notice, the priority of assignments should, I think, be determined by dates of registration; and I recommend such a modification of the law as will accomplish this result.
The duties to be performed by the Assistant Commissioner is in charge of the Bureau are not prescribed by law. In practice the Commissioner assigns to him from time to time various duties, including the adjudication of appeals where no objection is made by any party thereto. A statutory provision expressly authorizing the Assistant Commissioner to perform such of the duties imposed by law on the Commissioner as the Commissioner may from time to time assign to him would relieve the Patent Office from the embarrassment resulting from existing uncertainty respecting the powers and duties of the Assistant Commissioner.
It is provided in section 4887 of the Revised Statutes that
Every patent granted for an invention which has been previously patented in a foreign country shall be so limited as to expire at the same time with the foreign patent, or, if there be more than one, at the same time with the one having the shortest term, and in no case shall it be in force more than seventeen years.
The effect of this statutory provision is, that if a citizen of the United States obtains no foreign patents for his invention, but bestows its benefits without restriction upon every nation except his own, he is rewarded by a patent in the United States for seventeen years. If, on the other hand, he restricts the use of his invention in foreign countries, as in his own, by taking out foreign patents, and if he obtains a foreign patent first, (as in some cases he must obtain it first if at all,) his American patent may be limited to the term of his foreign patent, which may be only a single year. And if he postpone his American application in order to secure a foreign patent, he may find himself involved in an interference in the Patent Office of the United States which will consume a large portion of the term of his foreign patent, and therefore, of his American patent when granted. At the same time, if he take out his American patent first, he may obtain foreign patents in those countries in which the prior grant of the American patent is no obstacle to the issue of foreign patents without at all limiting the seventeen years' duration of his American patent. Foreign letters patent which, if allowed the day before his American grant, might reduce the term of his patent from seventeen years to one year, if granted the day after, will not reduce it at all.
These are a few of the inconsistencies and absurdities involved in the law as it now stands. It evidently needs careful amendment.
The records of the Patent Office do not enable the public to ascertain whether patents have been adjudged wholly or in part invalid by the courts. This is a serious defect in our system, which ought to be remedied by legislation providing for the transmission to the Patent Office of certified copies of all judgments and decrees of United States courts affecting the validity of patents, and for recording, digesting, and indexing the same in the Patent Office in such a way as to make them accessible to the public.
Under the statutes now in force (Rev. Stats., Secs. 4894 and 4895) an applicant, if his claim is allowed, absolutely forfeits his right to a patent by neglecting to proceed with his case for two years; but if his claim is rejected, he does not forfeit his right by such delay. I see no sufficient ground for this distinction between the two cases, and recommend legislation securing to the successful applicant the right now enjoyed by the unsuccessful applicant, to avoid the forfeiture by showing that his delay was unavoidable.
The interests of the public and of the Office imperatively demand that provision be made without further delay for the preparation of a general analytical and descriptive index of inventions and discoveries. Thirty years ago Commissioner Ewbank, in his annual report for 1848 [sic, actually 1849], to which I respectfully invite your attention, urged this subject upon the consideration of Congress. He said:
However serviceable to applicants the appointment of examiners has proved, the system of search is necessarily defective for want of such a work. It is impossible in every cast that comes before them, to wade through the numerous treatises, journals, foreign and domestic, encyclopedias, etc., and the piles of specifications and caveats in the office -- their whole time would not suffice for this; yet to arrive at a safe conclusion, the contents should be known to them. Patents have been issued for devices already figured and described in popular journals. A general and analytical index only can prevent this. For want of it, the labors of examiners result in no permanent advantage to the public, the office, or to inventors, other than those on whose inventions they pass. No results are recorded; and hence (except when the memory of an examiner supersedes the necessity) the same routine of reference to serial and standard works, to models, specifications, etc., is without ceasing, repeated. ...
It would be difficult to overrate the saving of time, money, material, and mental expenditure that would accrue to the country if the ingenious had the means of readily ascertaining what has been done in the lines of their speculations. A very inadequate idea may be gathered from the number of applications for patents rejected and suspended yearly for want of novelty or merit. In 1848 there were 948; and in 1849 over 1,400. Yet cases that come under the notice of this office constitute but a small part of the labors of those who sacrifice years in unfruitful researches, for lack of information which an index of inventions would give them.
In a pecuniary point of view, such a work is therefore most desirable to this office, to inventors, and the public at large. When made accessible to popular reference, it will be the saving of millions. No state paper could surpass it in importance, nor in lasting value. Till it is done, a majority of applicants for patents must continue to meet with sore disappointment. The only safe rule with them is always to make themselves acquainted with what has been attempted, before incurring any serious outlay. They should never presume that their devices have not entered other heads than their own until, by a searching inquisition on every hand, the presumption remains in their favor unimpaired. No better advice than this can be given them. But how are they to follow it? Nineteen-twentieths have few or no reliable sources of information within their reach, and not one in a hundred can afford the expenses of a visit to Washington and a residence there for the purpose of consulting the Office records and library.
Each succeeding year has augmented the force of most of the reasons suggested by Commissioner Ewbank for the preparation of this index. It is impossible now to estimate the advantages which inventors, the public, and this Office would derive from such a work if it were in the hands of examiners and accessible to the public. The saving of time and money which would result from its use by the Office would be immense. It is, of course, impossible to estimate the millions that would be saved to inventors and those who use inventions if the knowledge which it would furnish could be accessible to them.
A work of such magnitude should not be undertaken without a most thorough consideration of the method to be adopted for its accomplishment. I earnestly commend this subject to the attention of Congress.
At present applications for design patents are sent to the different examiners, according to the nature of the design. The law for this class of patents, of which about six hundred are annually issued, is special, and both it and the convenience of the Office, as well as the decisions of the courts, suggest strong reasons for their separation from all other work of the Office. The work of the Office would be facilitated and the practice improved by the establishment of a division for the examination of application for design patents and the appointment of a principal examiner to take charge of the division. I recommend such legislation as will accomplish this result.
For reasons which are particularly set forth in my report made to the Secretary of the Interior, October 21, 1879, and submitted with his annual report to Congress, I also recommend the enactment of a law authorizing the execution by United States commissioners or by other United States officers of commission issued by foreign governments to take testimony in the United States, to be used before foreign patent offices and before all judicial and legislative as well as executive departments of foreign governments, and to punish perjury committed in such testimony, such law to be operative only in favor of such governments as shall make like provision for taking testimony in foreign countries, to be used before the Patent Office of the United States and before the judicial, legislative, and executive departments of the Government; the establishment of a division in some one of the executive departments of the Government at Washington for the performance of photolithographic work for all bureaus of the Government which shall require it; an appropriation of $50,000 to be expended during the next fiscal year for printing the specifications of patents issued prior to November, 1866; the extension of the period within which patents may be dated to seven months from the dates of their allowance; such modification for section 4904 of the Revised Statutes as shall exempt every application from interference after the allowance of the patent and the payment of the final fee, and shall restrict subsequent applicants in such case to interference with the patent granted; the adaptation of a part of the third story of the west and north wings of the Patent Office to the present use of this Bureau by the construction of temporary partitions which shall not in any way interfere with the plan adopted for the reconstruction of those wings and the construction of one or more elevators from the basement to the third story of the building; provision bylaw for ten additional clerks of class one, three of class two, two of class three, and one of class four, and for fifteen assistant examiners, either of the third class at a salary of $1,400, or of a fourth class, to be established, at a salary of $1,200 per annum; the appropriation of a reasonable portion of the net earnings of the Patent Office to be expended in an increase of the inadequate compensation now paid to many capable and efficient employees in the grades of $360, $480, $600, $660, and $720 per annum, in the restoration of the salaries of the Principal Examiners and Chief Clerk, and in additions to the technical library of the Patent Office; the enactment of a law providing that no model shall be required or filed in any case unless upon a written certificate filed in the case by the examiner in charge of the division to which the invention pertains that it will be useful in the examination of the application, or upon the special order of the Commissioner; that the Commissioner shall not require the production of a model for the examination in any case in which the applicant shall furnish satisfactory scale drawings made from a working machine, and shall produce for examination a working machine in operation in the city of Washington; and that upon the expiration of every patent the model pertaining thereto shall be sent by the Commissioner to one of the public institutions of science and art in the United States; the enactment of a statutory provision authorizing the employment of skilled workmen to make copies of models for official certification, who shall take the oath of office and give bond for the faithful performance of their duty in such penal sum as the Commissioner of Patents may prescribe, and shall receive from persons ordering copies of models such compensation as the Commissioner of Patents shall approve in each case, but shall receive no compensation whatever from the United States; an appropriation of $10,000 for the publication of the general indexes of patentees, extending from 1790 to 1873, which has been in the course of preparation for several years, and will soon be ready for the press; an appropriation of $6,000 to print the illustrations of the Patent Office Report for the year 1870, and an appropriation of $60,000 for the photolithographic reproduction of drawings destroyed by fire, to be made immediately available, so that the work may be pushed to completion during the current year.
I submit herewith a detailed statement of all moneys received; a detailed statement of all expenditures for contingent and miscellaneous expense; a list of all patents granted, arranged according to subjects; an alphabetical list of all the patentees, showing their places of residence, and a list of all patents which have been extended during the year; which statements and lists cover the year ending December 31, 1879.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant
H.E. Paine
Commissioner of Patents
Hon. S.J. Randall
Speaker House of Representatives
Detailed statement of all expenditures for contingent and
miscellaneous expenses, from January 1, 1879 to December 31,
1879, inclusive.
Jan 1 Balance of appropriation brought forward $17,869.81
2 Great Falls Ice Co., ice 163.02
4 Francis Miller, printer's stock 22.70
4 Robert Boyd, hardware 41.14
6 E. Morrison, paper 494.49
6 W.W. Burdette & Co., dry goods 9.40
6 Jas. A.K. Moore, paste 1.00
6 B.W. Reed's Sons, coaline 1.25
7 Edward E. Ellis, services 4.00
10 H.L. Pelouze & Son, type 27.50
10 Norris Peters, printing 157.00
10 E.J. Hayward, washing 17.54
10 G. Hoage & Co., subscription 3.75
11 C.C. Wilson, stamps 10.45
14 C.E. Birckhead, case 21.50
15 James Lingenfelter, services 32.50
15 James H. Williams, services 39.00
15 Susan V. Bird, paste 18.00
15 Alex Pope, services 16.50
21 Chas. H. Marot, subscription 4.20
22 Geo. C. Maynard, telephone 35.75
23 Alex Pope, services 10.50
23 Henry F. Reh, boxes 37.50
23 L.H. Schneider & Co., hardware 42.93
23 J.H. Adriaans, jr., services 5.22
25 W.T. Davis, services 12.00
25 J.S. Oden, cards 28.60
25 Washington city post office, postage 60.56
27 D. Ballauf, repairing 6.00
28 W.H. Veerhoff, shades 13.24
29 A.S. Pratt & Sons, books 20.00
30 James S. Oden, index cards 8.50
31 Susan V. Bird, paste 14.00
31 L.H. Flynn, file wrappers 50.34
31 J.H. Williams, services 42.00
31 Jas. Lingenfelter, services, etc. 44.50
31 Richard J. Gallagher, services 77.50
31 Pay roll (per diem) 1,012.50
__________ 2,613.33
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Balance of appropriation, January 31 15,256.48
Jan 28 Thomas Jomerville, gas fixtures 13.05
Feb 3 Daniel Kolb, soda 6.45
4 Daniel Williams, services 13.59
6 E.M. Whittaker & Sons, reviews 16.00
7 Macmillan & Co., subscriptions 7.00
8 Wm. Brakhagen, repairing 3.25
12 Western Union Tel Co., telegrams 2.29
12 Jas S. Oden, cards 8.50
14 Solomon & Chapman, sundries 20.50
14 Henry W. Saul, baskets 16.00
14 E.J. Hayward, washing 14.52
15 Susan V. Bird, paste 16.50
15 E.D. Webb, services 32.50
15 Jas H. Williams, services 39.00
15 R.A. Jones, services 15.00
15 Jas Lingenfelter, services 39.00
18 Henrietta Shewalter, services 13.50
18 C.C. Wilson, stamps 14.45
18 Aires & Belt, lumber 43.70
20 J.A. Stephenson, transportation 2.50
25 Germond Crandell, books 39.30
26 B. Westerman & Co., books 110.54
27 A. Hoen & Co., engraving 31.90
28 Jas H. Williams, services 35.50
28 Susan Y. Bird, paste 12.50
28 L.H. Flynn, file wrappers 36.00
28 R.J. Gallagher, services 70.00
28 Jas. Lingenfelter, services 33.00
28 R.A. Jones, services 27.50
28 Nat. Print. and Pub. Co, subscription 3.00
28 Per diem pay roll 900.00
__________ 1,636.45
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Balance of appropriation February 28 13,620.03
Mar 1 E.J. Hayward, washing 14.83
4 Robert Boyd, hardware 52.93
7 George Stevens, boxes 36.00
7 J.F.W. Dorman, stamps 14.00
8 D. Van Norstrand, magazine 5.00
10 C.C. Wilson, stamps 18.65
10 E.W. Woodruff, file holders 65.00
11 Wm. H. Clark, services 40.00
14 Germond Crandell, books 45.00
15 Jas. H. Williams, services 41.50
15 F. Leypoldt, books 21.00
15 John H. Schultz, subscription 5.00
15 Susan V. Bird, paste 10.25
15 J. Bradley Adams, almanacs 6.00
15 Wm. F. Ross, sawdust 14.00
15 Jas Lingenfelter, services 39.00
15 R.A. Jones, services 32.50
18 W.S. Mitchell, mats 21.60
22 D. Appleton, periodicals 13.50
28 Little, Brown & Co., encyclopedia 6.00
28 Augustus Burgdorf, shoe drawers 115.00
28 J. Von Laer, binders 98.60
28 E.H. King, case 108.00
31 Chas E. Birckhead, sundries 142.00
31 Richard Gallagher, services 77.50
31 Jas H. Williams, services 39.00
31 Henrietta Shewalter, services 7.50
31 Jas Lingenfelter, services 39.00
31 R.A. Jones, services 32.50
31 Susan V. Bird, paste 9.00
31 M.M. Price, copies 6.00
31 L.H. Flynn, file wrappers 36.97
Apr 1 O.C. Thomas, services 3.00
1 John O'Connell, services 3.00
1 Daniel Williams, services 3.00
_________ 1,222.83
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Balance of appropriation March 31 12,397.20
Apr 1 Robert Wilson, services 3.00
1 Great Falls Ice Company, ice 128.25
2 F.W. Robinson & Co., book 1.00
4 E. Morrison, paper 204.00
4 F.E. Hamilton, gas fixtures 13.27
4 Washington city post office, postage 5.69
7 Geo. Ryneal, jr., painters' stock 30.90
7 James S. Oden, cases 12.00
7 B. Westermann & Co., books 64.04
8 Geo. Ryneal, jr., printers' stock 8.25
9 Washington city p.o., stamps, etc. 75.00
10 Bartram Zeverly, copy 3.00
10 E.H. King, furniture 194.00
12 E.W. Woodruff, file holders 97.50
14 Thomas S. Case, subscription 5.00
14 Harper Bros., subscription 3.20
15 Jas H. Williams, services 41.50
15 Jas Lingenfelter, services 39.00
15 R.A. Jones, services 32.50
15 Susan V. Bird, paste 9.75
16 H.L. Pelouze & Son, type 77.91
18 Belford, Clark & Co., subscription 5.00
18 Aug. Burgdorf, furniture, etc. 185.00
22 F. Leypoldt, subscription 5.00
22 R.G. Hutchinson, strap files 47.10
22 Geo. W. Knox, freight 6.77
24 Norris Peters, printing 76.00
24 J.M. Judd, encyclopedia 4.25
26 American Library Association, sundries 21.25
28 Jas S. Topham, paper cases 9.00
29 Western Union Tel. Co., telegrams 1.10
30 Susan V. Bird, paste 9.50
30 Henrietta Shewalter, services 7.50
30 L.H. Flynn, file wrappers 39.00
30 Jas H. Williams, services 39.00
30 R.A. Jones, services 32.50
30 Jas Lingenfelter, services 39.00
30 Richard J. Gallagher 74.20
30 Pay roll 838.79
_________ 2,488.72
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Balance of appropriation April 30 9,908.48
May 1 E.H. King, furniture, etc. 93.00
3 Francis Miller, sundries 8.70
3 R.G. Hutchinson, strap files 22.50
3 Oscar C. Thomas, services 30.00
3 S.J. Meeks, repairing cart 10.00
3 W.W. Burdette & Co., towels, etc. 52.63
3 R.A. Jones, services 32.50
5 E.J. Hayward, washing 32.24
5 C.C. Wilson, stamps 21.45
6 Jas J. Chapman, eyelet machine 7.00
9 John G. Stetson, copies 214.00
12 J.W. Boteler & Bro., matches 23.00
14 Geo. W. Knox, transportation 10.00
15 Jas Lingenfelter, services 39.00
15 Susan V. Bird, paste 6.50
16 Jas H. Williams, services 39.00
15 Jas H. Williams, locks 5.00
15 L.B. Middleton, services 20.00
15 H.I. Hart, insect powder 8.00
20 Wm. C. Wyckoff, subscription 2.00
21 Augustus Burgdorf, desk 45.00
21 H.F. Reh, paper boxes 27.00
22 Wash. B. Williams, cloth 10.72
22 Norris Peters, photolithographing etc 30.00
24 Chas. E. Birckhead, drawers, etc. 162.50
24 H.L. Pelouze & Son, type, etc. 23.50
24 do 9.09
26 C.W. Thorn & Co., soap, etc. 118.43
27 A. Grass, desk 35.00
28 John T. McCormick, safe 140.00
28 Jas H. McKenney, copies, etc. 320.00
29 Susan V. Bird, paste 15.00
29 Jas H. Williams, locks 5.00
29 R.A. Jones, services 35.00
29 L.B. Middleton, services 35.00
29 R.J. Gallagher, services 76.60
29 Jas Lingenfelter, services 42.00
31 E.H. King, desk 55.00
31 L. Constanseau, freight, etc. 24.80
31 Pay roll, services 871.80
_________ 2,903.09
_________
7,005.39
31 Bill of Washington City P.O., Apr 9, 1879,
paid, but money subsequently refunded 75.00
_________
Balance of appropriation May 31, 1879 7,080.39
June 2 Robert Boyd, hardware 51.45
2 George Ryneal, jr., varnish 5.50
3 C.C. Wilson, stamps 39.70
4 H. Shewalter, services 6.00
4 International News Co., review 7.20
4 Solomons & Chapman, maps 24.90
4 E.J. Hayward, washing 14.10
6 Adams Express Co., transportation 2.25
7 Wood Bros., case 77.50
7 L.H. Schneider, hardware 51.04
7 E.W. Woodruff, file holders 130.00
7 Robert Wilson, services 10.50
7 Thomas Somerville, hardware 15.20
9 Crane & Co., paper 96.00
11 John Keyworth, soap, etc. 106.69
11 W.H. & O.H. Morrison, books 150.00
11 Willet & Libbey, lumber 96.08
12 A. Van Name, subscription 22.88
13 W.H. Dempsey, paper 117.52
13 H.L. Pelouze & Son, type 35.00
14 Susan V. Bird, paste 9.75
14 Jas H. Williams, services 36.00
14 Jas Lingenfelter, desk 137.00
14 Jas Lingenfelter, service 36.00
14 R.A. Jones, services 30.00
14 L.B. Middleton, services 30.00
14 Lewis Hill, services 19.50
14 T.F. Wilson, services 19.50
16 Germond Crandell, cases, etc. 134.00
16 Industrial Publishing Co, subscription 1.00
17 M.G. Copeland & Co., awnings etc. 46.45
17 A. Grass, desks 70.00
18 John Keyworth, soap etc. 56.37
18 C.W. Thorn & Son, soap 166.83
19 Germond Crandell, books 45.50
20 Wm. W. Farr, repairing clock 8.00
20 Wood Bros, cases, etc. 45.00
21 Augustus Burgdorf, cases, etc. 273.75
26 H.L. Pelouze & Son, type 105.90
27 George Stevens, boxes 39.00
27 Wood Bros., cases 32.00
27 Robert Boyd, hardware 61.09
28 B.F. Stevens, books, etc. 471.76
28 E.W. Woodruff, file holders 260.00
28 Wm. F. Lutz, engravings 11.25
28 J.G. Weaver, walnut cases 279.50
28 R.A. Jones, services 32.50
28 L.B. Middleton, services 32.50
28 Richard J. Gallagher, services 74.20
28 Jas H. Williams, services 39.00
28 Daniel Williams, services 37.50
28 Geo. H. Clarke, services 37.50
28 Lewis Hill, services 16.50
28 W.H. Johnson, services 37.50
30 H. Baumgarten & Bro., stencil 2.00
30 James Lingenfelter, services 39.00
30 George C. Maynard, telephones 17.40
30 W.F. Ross, sawdust 15.75
30 James H. Williams, locks 5.00
30 F.B. Trout, services 35.20
30 Norris Peters, printing 100.00
30 Susan V. Bird, paste 15.75
30 L.H. Flynn, file wrappers 37.50
30 Theo F. Wilson, services 24.00
30 E.J. Hayward, washing 17.75
30 J.W. Boteler & Bro, coolers 36.70
31 Daniel Kolb, soda etc. 12.00
30 James Lingenfelter, desk 90.00
30 W.H. & O.H. Morrison, books 13.00
30 William Ballantyne & Son, blank book 12.95
30 Great Falls Ice Company, ice 132.81
July 1 Henrietta Shewalter, services 6.00
2 A. Grass, desks, etc 84.00
2 Wm. Walters, cases 65.00
2 Geo. Ryneal, jr., drugs, etc. 71.10
June 30 Pay roll, services 844.10
July 3 Thos. Somerville, sprinkler, etc. 9.25
3 B.W. Reed & Sons, coaline 8.75
3 Oscar C. Thomas, services 10.50
3 Daniel Williams, services 10.50
8 Francis Miller, sundries 10.70
8 Washington City P.O., postage, etc. 7.88
9 W.B. Moses, matting, etc. 1,415.40
9 W.W. Farr, repairing clocks, etc. 25.42
12 Louis Murralt, books 20.00
15 C.C. Wilson, stamps 9.95
23 E.M. Whitaker & Son, book 1.25
Aug 5 Western Union Tel Co., telegrams .95
July 29 Philip St. Lawrence, services 10.50
Aug 11 Phenix Iron Works Co., locks 18.00
Sept 11 Knox Express Co., freight 3.29
11 D.W. De Forrest, repayment of money
erroneously paid (per report of 1st
auditor, No. 215,905, paid on
requisition 10.00
1880 _________ 7,058.21
Mar 31 W.W. Burdette & Co. 12.10
_________
7,070.31
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Balance of appropriation 10.08
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Amount of appropriation year ending
June 30, 1880 35,000.00
July 7 Crane & Co., parchment 192.00
7 J.W. Boteler & Bro, tumblers 16.86
8 B.F. Stevens, books 180.36
9 E.H. King, furniture etc. 594.05
10 E.W. Woodruff, file boxes 130.00
12 Wood Bros, case 7.00
14 Henry Kimmel, castings 3.20
15 L.B. Middleton, services 32.50
15 James H. Williams, services 39.00
15 R.A. Jones, services 32.50
15 Susan V. Bird, paste 8.25
15 James Lingenfelter, services 39.00
15 Shewalter, services 6.00
17 Chas. E. Birckhead, cases & locks 1,232.00
18 Gill & Reardon, glass 294.00
18 M.E. Mann, cyclopedia 5.00
23 James and E.S. Dana, subscription 6.12
26 E. Morrison, paper 1.10
30 Ruth E. Pomeroy, services 75.80
30 Henry F. Reh, boxes 100.00
31 R.J. Gallagher, services 75.80
31 A.J. Williams, services 10.50
31 James Lingenfelter, services 42.00
31 James H. Williams, services 42.00
31 James H. Williams, locks 7.50
31 L.H. Flynn, file wrappers 39.37
31 Susan V. Bird, paste 15.00
31 Pay roll, services 1,034.36
Aug 1 C.C. Wilson, stamps 29.35
_________ 4,290.62
_________
Balance 30,709.38
Aug 2 L.B. Middleton, services 35.00
2 R.A. Jones, services 35.00
4 W.H. and O.H. Morrison, cases 126.00
5 James S. Chapman, eyelet machine 7.00
5 Augustus Burgdorf, furniture 386.00
5 Western Union Tel. Co., telegram .29
7 Baltimore and Ohio R.R. Co., freight .66
7 Atlantic & Pacific Tel. Co., telegram .35
8 Aires & Belt, lumber 18.25
11 Gold Stock Tel. Com., telephones 54.17
14 Orange Judd & Co., subscription 1.50
15 Susan V. Bird, paste 14.62
15 E.H. King, case 300.00
15 E.H. Jackson & Co., lumber 132.50
19 J.McC. Perkins, money refunded 20.00
20 J.S. Topham, trunk 16.00
23 Norris Peters, printing etc. 200.00
25 Reversible Collar Co., collar stock 8.00
29 E.H. King, casing No. 44 etc. 1,019.25
30 W.H. Bright, copies 4.10
30 R.J. Gallagher, services 75.80
30 Ruth E. Pomeroy, services 75.80
30 James H. Williams, services 39.00
30 James Lingenfelter, services 39.00
30 William Johnson, services 27.00
30 James H. Williams, locks 17.50
30 L.B. Middleton, services 32.50
30 R.A. Jones, services 32.50
30 A.J. Williams, services 19.50
30 Susan V. Bird, paste 18.37
30 L.H. Flynn, file wrappers 35.34
30 James Lingenfelter, desks 75.00
Sept 1 Wm. Ballantyne & Sons, books 6.72
Aug 30 Pay roll, services 1,355.70
_________ 4,228.42
_________
Balance 26,480.96
Sept 2 Virginia T. Ball, services 75.80
2 do 39.13
_________ 114.93
_________
Balance 26,366.03
Sept 2 W.H. and O.H. Morrison, books 12.00
4 Robert Boyd, hardware 16.62
4 A.H. Roome, washing 12.96
4 J.F.W. Dorman, stamps 26.85
4 F.E. Hamilton, plumber's stock 27.80
5 W.W. Burdette & Co., sheeting, etc. 86.47
8 Atlantic & Pacific Tel Co, telegram .33
11 Knox Express Co., freight .50
11 Wm. Ballantyne & Son, blank books 6.72
15 James Lingenfelter, services 39.00
15 H. Van Zuilen, repairing binders 12.00
15 L.B. Middleton, services 32.50
15 James H. Williams, services 39.00
15 Susan V. Bird, paste 9.75
18 Daniel Kolb, insect powder 7.63
19 William M. Davis, matches 37.50
20 H. Van Zuilen, binder 68.90
27 Lorenzo Rice, cleaning carpets 75.79
30 James H. Williams, services 39.00
30 Virginia F. Ball, services 73.40
30 R.J. Gallagher, services 73.40
30 L.B. Middleton, services 32.50
30 James Lingenfelter, services 39.00
30 William Johnson, services 39.00
30 L.H. Flynn, file wrappers 29.80
30 Susan V. Bird, paste 18.75
30 James H. Williams, locks 15.00
30 Pay roll 1,313.60
30 Ruth E. Pomeroy 73.40
_________ 2,259.17
_________
Balance 24,106.86
Sept 30 Western Union Tel Co., telegram 1.39
Oct 1 Gutta Percha & R. Manf Co., gum cover 25.10
1 E.H. King, furniture 647.40
2 Norris Peters, printing etc. 80.00
2 do 80.00
3 H. Van Zuilen, binders 13.00
3 Great Falls Ice Co., ice 133.10
4 H.L. Lipman, eyelet machine 20.00
7 H. Van Zuilen, binders 13.00
7 A.W. Roome, washing 8.06
10 G.& S. Telegraph Co., rent telephones 43.75
10 H.L. Pelouze & Son, printers' stock 12.50
11 E.M. Whitaker & Son, envelopes 728.54
15 James H. Williams, services 39.00
15 L.B. Middleton, services 32.50
15 James Lingenfelter, services 39.00
15 James H. Williams, locks 12.50
15 Susan V. Bird, paste 9.75
15 William Johnson, services 19.50
17 S.C. Van Deventer, painting 47.00
24 W.B. Moses, carpets, etc. 1,081.61
25 W.H. Ross, sawdust 18.00
25 Birckhead & Mishaw, case 30.00
25 E.H. King, desks 65.00
30 L.B. Middleton, services 35.00
30 James Lingenfelter, services 42.00
30 James H. Williams 42.00
30 Virginia F. Ball, services 75.80
30 Ruth E. Pomeroy, services 75.80
30 R.J. Gallagher, services 75.80
31 Gardner & Co.,chairs etc. 174.00
31 L.H. Flynn, file wrappers 28.81
31 Pay roll, services 1,274.05
_________ 5,022.36
_________
Balance October 31, 1879 19,084.50
Nov 1 Susan V. Bird, paste 18.75
4 James H. Williams, locks 10.00
4 A.W. Roome, washing 6.16
6 Robt Boyd, hardware 21.35
10 E.E. Jackson, lumber 75.00
14 W.H. Bright, copies 9.65
15 Susan V. Bird, paste 9.09
15 L.B. Middleton, services 32.50
15 James Lingenfelter, services 39.00
15 James H. Williams, locks 2.50
15 James H. Williams, services 39.00
26 L.H. Flynn, file wrappers 25.62
26 W.S. Mitchell, carpeting, etc. 808.38
26 Ruth E. Pomeroy, services 73.40
26 V.F. Ball, services 73.40
26 James H. Williams, services 36.00
26 L.B. Middleton, services 30.00
26 James Lingenfelter, services 36.00
26 R.J. Gallagher, services 73.40
26 George Stevens, services 45.00
28 Reversible Collar Co., collar stock 4.70
26 Pay roll, services 1,220.60
29 Susan V. Bird, paste 17.25
29 Balto. & Potomac R.R. Co., freight 13.56
_________ 2,780.22
_________
Balance November 30, 1879 16,304.28
Dec 1 Wm. F. Lutz, stamps 2.25
2 E.H. King, desk 20.00
3 Robt Boyd, hardware 24.10
3 Ira Godfrey, washing 10.18
4 C.C. Wilson, stamps 51.50
5 H. Van Zuilen, book 4.00
6 Thomas Somerville, closet furniture 52.60
9 Adams Express Co, freight 1.45
9 Birckhead & Mishaw, desks 70.00
10 L.H. Schneider & Co., hardware 137.70
12 E.E. Jackson & Co., lumber 117.00
12 Wm. Brakhagen, mail bag 20.00
13 Jas H. Williams, services 39.00
13 L.B. Middleton, services 32.50
13 James Lingenfelter, services 39.00
13 Arthur Flynn, labor 2.50
15 Susan V. Bird, paste 9.75
18 H.L. Lipman, eyelet machine 10.30
20 Columbus Beatty, labor 1.50
22 National Republican Printing Company,
subscription 6.00
22 Chas Fischer, instruments 23.00
22 Ruth E. Pomeroy, services 75.80
22 V.F. Ball, services 75.80
23 James H. Williams, services 42.00
23 L.B. Middleton, services 35.00
23 James Lingenfelter, services 42.00
23 Norris Peters, printing, etc. 160.00
23 R.J. Gallagher, services 75.80
23 Wm. W. Farr, services 77.50
24 J. Temple Brown, type writers 406.50
24 L.H. Flynn, file wrappers 48.00
26 Charles C. Hall, index 30.00
27 Springfield Silk Company, silk cord 206.72
29 E. Morrison, paper 13.90
30 Western Union Tel. Co., telegram .72
30 W.W. Burdette & Co., dry goods 128.98
31 Susan V. Bird, paste 18.75
23 Pay roll, services 1,264.05
_________ 3,376.15
_________
Balance December 31, 1879 12,928.13
Less Wm. Ballantyne & Son, September 1, 1879 6.72
_________
12,934.85