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We must add to the receipts shown in the preceding table (29,958.80 francs) the sum of
37>245-63 francs paid for publications printed during the preceding years, thus making the
total receipts for publications the sum of 67,204.43 francs mentioned by me above, representing
practically three times the amount received for the previous year. This favourable result is
enhanced if we bear in mind that the large increase in receipts is supplemented by a considerable
decrease in expenses as compared with the previous year—viz., 40,751.44 francs.
As the special accounts which it used to contain have been eliminated from the budget
and the expenditure on the Museums Office has been added to the general expenditure, Item G,
Organisations and Various Work ”, only covered during the financial year a certain number
of study scholarships and a special allowance, for which purposes, however, the initial
appropriation of 20,000 francs—the same as for the preceding year—had to be increased by
1,620 francs. There were four such scholarships of 4,000 francs each, which the Committee
of Directors has since 1927 awarded to a lecturer in Prague (for studies of Ukrainian engravings
of the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries), a professor of Sofia University (for a
journey to Paris, Geneva and The Hague to make a special study of the League of Nations),
a Vienna archivist (for research in France on mediaeval literature), and a professor of Ljubljana
University (for studies of the pre-Indo-European languages and civilisations of ancient Europe).
The special allowance mentioned consisted of a payment of 4,500 francs to a woman
employee whose post had been abolished ; the sum was paid to compensate her for work done
during the first quarter of 1930, for the so-called ” Liaison Committee of the Major Associations
and School Information Centre ”, reports of meetings, correspondence, library research,
drafting of reports, a description which leaves it rather doubtful whether such expenditure
should have been met by the Institute or not.
Chapter IV. — Unforeseen Expenses.
As usual, this chapter has served partly, though to a less degree than formerly, to make
up shortages in other appropriations ; 2,700 francs, for instance, were transferred to the item
“ Insurance policies ” and 2,500 francs to “ Travelling ”. On the other hand, the chapter was
directly debited with 4,450.35 francs, practically the whole cost of two journeys of officials
arriving from, and departing for, their native countries. Of the initial appropriation of 20,360
francs, there thus remained available, when the accounts were closed, an amount of 10,959.65
francs.
Chapter V. — Additional Office Expenses.
As stated in previous reports, this chapter was specially created in the financial year 1928
for the expenses of installing central heating. This installation, which in the two previous
financial years had cost the Institute an amount of 201,087.89 francs, necessitated the further
expenditure in 1930 of 49,950 francs, which makes the total cost 251,037.89 francs.
Chapter VI. — Sums still to be paid in respect of Past Financial Years.
The payments still outstanding at the end of 1928 owing to the work done at the Institute’s
premises not having been yet inspected by the French Government architect 1 have been
gradually increased by other debts due to the subsequent decease of the architect and still
shown, as I have already pointed out, in the Institute’s accounts. In 1930, 2,306.61 francs
were paid on account of this item, leaving 9,629.90 francs outstanding, as already mentioned,
for 1931.
Special Accounts separated from the Budget.
A. Publication of the Collection of Latin-American Classics.
The balance of this item carried over from 1929, amounting to 117,135.45 francs, was
increased during 1930 by 113,694.25 francs paid by Venezuela (77,212.35 francs) and the
Argentine (36,481.90 francs).
Of the total of 230,829.70 francs, 15,415.80 francs 2 were expended, leaving 215,414.20
francs, which have been credited to the same item in the 1931 financial year.
1 See preceding report (document A. 21. 1930. XII, pages 78 and 79).
2 5,600 francs on translations (of which 1,500 francs for a translation not used because inadequate),
9,000 francs publishing expenses and other petty miscellaneous expenses.