The auditor general is hereby directed to have prepared a statement showing the exact amount which each charitable, benevolent and reformatory institution, not under the control of the state, but which was an applicant for state aid at the present session, has received from the commonwealth since the organization of such institution, and the purpose for which such appropriation was granted, to which shall be appended a brief history of each institution, the whole to be printed in book form, bound in cloth, and thirty copies thereof to be forwarded to each senator and member of the legislature. The governor, state treasurer, attorney general, auditor general, secretary of internal affairs, and the state librarian shall each be supplied with two hundred copies. There is hereby appropriated for editing, compiling, copying, and the expenses of obtaining the necessary descriptive, financial and historical data, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, upon the warrant of the auditor general drawn upon the state treasurer and audited by the auditor general in the usual way.
72 P.S. § 4383