22 FIRST TO FOURTH ANNUAL REPORTS

This arrangement was accepted by the Hall of Records Commission
at its meeting of October 3, 1935 at which time the State Treasurer
was present. The Commission at this same meeting set salaries to
conform with this restricted appropriation but having already set
the salary of the Archivist at $5,000 it was forced to cut the other
salary rates. It was because of this unusual circumstance at the very
beginning that salaries at the Hall of Records were fixed lower than
the general scale for other State employees. Once fixed these scales
proved difficult to change. In spite of continuous effort on the part
of the Archivist, they were never altered during the first four years
of the Hall of Records.

There was expended during the year the entire sum of $28,432.

Fiscal Year 1936-1937.

During the second year of operations the Hall of Records had
an even smaller appropriation, as follows:

Salaries and Wages..............................$17,148.00

Supplies and Equipment......................... 2,300.00

Contingent Expenses........................... 552.00

Total.................................$20,000.00

There was lost to the Hall of Records for this year the special
equipment fund of $5,300 which had been allotted for the first year.
More serious was the loss of the fund for payment of the mainten-
ance staff amounting to $3,132. Efforts of the Archivist to have this
fund restored failed.

Expenditures for the year........................ $19,994.35

Balance unexpended and returned to Treasury...... 5.65

Fiscal Year 1937-1938.

The very small budget for the previous fiscal year was increased
by fifty percent during the fiscal year 1937-1938 as follows:

Salaries, Wages and Special Payments............. $18,848.00

Operating Expenses............................. 11,360.00

Total................................ $30,208.00