8 NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

1953. The unusual increase in receipts was due in large part to the ap-
pearance in the last month of the fiscal year of Publication No. 9, which
developed unforseen popular interest.

Summary of Appropriations Fiscal Year 1954

Salaries, Wages and Special Payments .......... $72,347.00

Operating Expenses ........................................ 15,241.00

TOTAL .......................................................................................... $87,588.00

Summary of Expenditures Fiscal Year 1954

Expended ........................................................ $82,895.00

Funds Carried forward .................................. 2,184.00

TOTAL .......................................................................................... $85,079.00

Balance reverted to General Funds .................................... 2,509,00

During the fiscal year 1954, we carried forward $2,500.00 from 1952
Budget Item No. 208A. Of this amount $1,592.52 was spent for Publica-
tion No. 8, $446.64 for copper halftones and five engravings for Buildings
of The State of Maryland at Annapolis, and $460.84 was reverted to Gen-
eral Funds.

We were also permitted to carry forward $2,500 from 1953 budget
Item No. 208A. Of this amount $2,137.50 was spent for Publication No.
9, and the remaining $362.50 is earmarked for the printing of Publication
No. 10, which is to appear during fiscal year 1955.

BREAKDOWN OF EXPENDITURES FOR FISCAL YEAR 1954
SALARIES, WAGES AND SPECIAL PAYMENTS

PROGRAM No. 1 — GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

Archivist and Records Administrator ............ $9,423

Stenographer-Secretary .................................... 3,381

Senior Account Clerk ...................................... 3,074