Excerpt from Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations: Consisting of Messrs. Bingham, Gillett, Tawney, Livingston, and Burleson; In Charge of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Bill for 1910 Mr. Bingham. What is the sum total of all the appropriations received during the present fiscal year for your Library of Congress? Mr. Putnam. That is the amount of the current law. It includes the library and the library building and grounds - all purposes for the library except printing and binding, which is in another bill. It includes $100 000 for the new book stack. Roughly speaking, the appropriations for the library and the library build ing and grounds are about a year, of which nearly is reimbursed to the Government by fees of the Copyright Office and of the card section, covered into the Treasury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.