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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



SECRETAEY'S SUPPLEMENTAL EEPORT. 



1866. 

 Jan. ] 

 Jan. i 



Jan. 8 

 Jan. 29 



RECEIPTS. 



Cash balance from 1865, in Treasury §256 35 



Cash of C. H. Shear, for rent of park for 

 December, 1865, and January and Feb- 



ary, 1866 300 00 



Cash W. H. Thomas, for diploma frame ... 3 50 



CONTRA. 



Cash balance in Treasury from 1865 $256 35 



Cash paid Treasurer 300 00 



Cash paid Treasurer 3 50 



$559 85 



$559 85 



DISBURSEMENTS, 



Jan. 30 



To Mart Taylor, for filling diplomas $13 50 



To Edwards & Co., stationery 9 25 



To George H. Vose & Co., wood 10 00 



Cash on hand 527 10 



$559 85 



In addition to the above financial statement, showing that the present 

 indebtedness of the society is six thousand two hundred and four dollars 

 and forty-four cents, we would state that in eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 three, on the eleventh day of March, the demands against the society 

 amounted to twenty-six thousand four hundred and sevent^'-three dollars 

 and fifty-eight cents. That year they were reduced seven thousand one 

 hundred and eighty-one dollars and two cents. In eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-four the reduction was eight thousand four hundred and twelve 

 dollars and seventy-two cents, and in eighteen hundred and sixty-five it 

 is five thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars and thirty-six 

 cents; the whole amount of indebtedness cancelled in the three years, 

 including interest, being twenty-one thousand five hundred and eight}'- 

 one dollars and ten cents. With a fair appropriation by the Legislature 

 this year — say five thousand dollars — the Board believe the society will 

 be able to pay the last dollar of its debts and to enter upon an unex- 

 ampled career of usefulness, from which it has been prevented in a great 

 measure in the past by the encumbrance that has hung over it. 



We would also state that while the books of the Secretary for eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-two showed an annual membership of about five 

 hundred, we have now about one thousand one hundred members. The 



