4,964,148.66

United States Government Aid.

Of the total sum of $5,000,000 appropriated by act of Congress
approved March 3, 1901, there has been received by the company
the sum of $4,752,968.45, of which sum $250,000 was in the form
of souvenir gold coin. We understand, however, that amounts have
also been paid by the United States Treasury out of this
appropriation which have not been reported to, or included in
the accounts of, the company.

United States Government Loan.

Pursuant to an act of Congress approved February 18, 1904, there
was advanced to the company from the United States Treasury, by
way of loan, the sum of $4,600,000, repayable by semimonthly
installments, commencing June 15, 1904, and equivalent to 40 per
cent of the receipts from admissions and concessions during the
half month immediately preceding the date of payment, it being
provided that each installment after July 1 should amount to not
less than $500,000. The whole of this loan was duly repaid on
the following dates:

June 16 ................................. $195,057.04
July 1 .................................. 213,092.15
July 15 ................................. 500,000.00
August 1 ................................ 500,000.00
August 15 ............................... 500,000.00
August 31 ............................... 500,000.00
September 14 ............................ 500,000.00
October 1 ............................... 500,000.00
October 15 .............................. 500,000.00
October 31 .............................. 500,000.00
November 15 ............................. 191,850.81
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4,600,000.00

Loan on Security of Capital Stock Subscriptions and Premium on
Souvenir Coins.

On August 22, 1903, the company entered into a contract with the
Mississippi Valley Trust Company, the Lincoln Trust Company, the
Mercantile Trust Company, and the St. Louis Union Trust Company,
as trustees, under which it assigned all subscriptions which
were at that date wholly or partly unpaid, together with all
further subscriptions which might be received, and the premium
to be received on t