APPENDIX. 



371 



MARTHA'S VINEYARD. 



Chilmark, . 

 Edgartown, 



Gay Head, . 



$219 59 



41 00 



8 00 



Tisbury, 



Total, 



$318 81 



$017 40 



The attention of the officers of the County Societies is earnestly 

 directed to the importance of a most cartful preparation of the above 

 returns. Many discrepancies appear in the returns of 1866, some very 

 considerable. For instance : the Es-ex Society in its financial exhibit, 

 returns as having paid out $690 75, while in its analysis of payments 

 it appears to have paid $1,000.25 ; the Worcester appears to have paid 

 $902.86, but has paid $900 86; the Worcester South-East, instead of 

 $417.80, has paid $547.87; the Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin, 

 instead of $942.00, has paid $1,268.50; the Franklin instead of 

 $621.00, has paid $692.50; the Bri>tol instead of $1,684.35, has paid 

 $1,584.35 ; the Bristol Central instead of $1,306.50, has paid $847.00; 

 and the latter society has actually returned as its capital fund paid in 

 free of all incumbrances, nothing. 



Errors like these when noticed by the public can only tend to throw 

 these returns into disrepute, wh le carefully prepared papers will make 

 them valuable exhibits of the annual agricultural proceedings of the 

 various societies in the Commonweal. h. 



