Two Claims of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for Material Furnished and Services Rendered the Department of State

It appears from the administrative record and from informally obtained information from officials of the departments concerned that, during the later part of fiscal year 1949, the Department of State obligated its 1949 printing and binding appropriation in the amount of $870 to cover the estimated cost of certain printing and engraving work ordered from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; also, that when the work was completed, which was during a subsequent fiscal year, the Bureau determined that the actual cost thereof exceeded its original estimate by several hundred dollars. Since the balance of funds in the 1949 appropriation, at the time it lapsed to "Payment of Certified Claims," was sufficient to pay only a part of the additional cost of the work, there resulted a deficiency of $113.21.