STATt HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 5 



In this connection, I would suggest that a committee be appointed, 

 at an early day, to prepare a programme, and make other necessary 

 arrangements, for the anniversary meeting which will occur on Thursday 

 evening. 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 



President Hammond then made the following brief financial state- 

 ment : 



Not having the data from which to compile a detailed financial 

 report, I can only speak in general terms of the financial condition of 

 the Society. 



The warrants paid by our late Treasurer, between December i6th 

 and March ist, of the fiscal year, were : 



1875- 

 Dec. 16 — No. 69 — To C. E. Southard, for printing j; ig -^ 



Dec. 16 — No. 70 — To O. B. Galusha, balance on all accounts 291 17 



Dec. 16 — No. 71 — To Louis Miller, express and fires for Board.. 4 00 



1876. 



Jan. 4 — No. 72 — To O. L. Barler, for reporting 65 00 



Feb. 7 — No. 73 — To Baker iS: Co., for engraving 13 88 



On the ist of March the Treasurer's account showed a balance in 

 our favor of $2,904.75. On the nth of that month he was suddenly 

 called away. 



Immediately after hearing of his death, your Secretary visited the 

 family in the interests of the Society. He found that Mr. Huggins had 

 not kept a separate bank account, as Treasurer of the State Horticultural 

 Society, but deposited the funds in his own name, and that his account 

 showed a balance in his favor of only $700.00. As the publisher's bill 

 was then due, I deemed it necessary to call a meeting of the Executive 

 Board, to arrange for the payment of this bill, and otherwise consider 

 the situation. 



At this meeting, held at Normal on the 28th of March, the Secretary 

 reported that the son of the late Treasurer, who administers on the estate, 

 had assured him that the $700.00 in bank should be paid as soon as 

 the necessary order of court could be procured, and that we could 

 depend upon an additional amount — sufficient, at least, to liquidate the 

 indebtedness of the Society — within sixty days. 



Five members of the Board, therefore, volunteered to advance the 

 sum necessary to pay the publisher. W. T. Nelson was then appointed 

 Treasurer, after which the Board adjourned. 



Having, up to August ist, received but $609.00 from the adminis- 

 trator, and having no assurance of further immediate payment, I again 

 called the Board together, at Chicago. After carefully considering the 

 subject, they directed me to repair at once to Carlinville, and thorouglily 

 investigate the condition of the estate of the late Treasurer, as well as 



