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in possession of means with which to compensate some one for the consider- 

 able time and labor requisite to this end. 



The society is in solvent financial condition, the result more of keeping 

 expenses down than of increasing the revenue. The receipts of the 

 year were: 



Annual memberships $26 00 



Auxiliary societies 96 72 



Interest on bonds and mortgages 133 33 



$256 05 

 Balance on hand Dec. 3, 1891 190 98 



Making a total of $447 03 



The expenditures have been 387 93 



Net balance at date $59 10 



The expenditures may be classified as follows: 



Voted secretary as salary for 1891 $100 00 



Treasurer's postage 18 



Expenses connected with Annual Report 8 50 



Library 12 50 



Printing 23 50 



Expenses of secretary's office 46 87 



Expenses of quarterly meetings ._ 193 63 



Miscellaneous itenls 2 75 



$387 93 



I have expected to receive a smart scolding for not having here volumes 

 of the Annual Report for 1891, and perhaps merit what I have anticipated. 

 I can only say for myself that though my hours of labor extend far beyond 

 sunset each day, I still can not always keep abreast of the work which in 

 many forms comes to my hands. I began work upon the Report last Jan- 

 uary when confined to my home by illness, and had I been sick longer the 

 volume would have been ready sooner. But once more in my office, 

 demands of my private affairs were inexorable. 



The Report has grown in size until quite 600 pages are printed and the 

 printers are getting into type as fast as they can the voluminous general 

 index of the preceding eleven volumes, which will make fifty to sixty pages 

 in small type. This portion of the book alone has consumed all the spare 

 time of three months. Although the R'^port will be so large, still, I do not 

 know of any part I would have omitted had I foreseen its great size; and 

 I have some matter reserved for the Report of 1892 which I prepared for 

 '91. The state printers assured me in September that they would do their 

 part of the work in time, but the big index seems to have been too much 

 for them. However, the volumes will be ready in two or three weeks, 

 when I hope your righteous displeasure may be somewhat mollified by the 

 book's extent and value, though it would ill-become me to presume much 

 upon the latter. Edwy C. Reid. 



A report was also made by the treasurer, corresponding to the above, as 

 to receipts and disbursements, but as it has been somehow misplaced from 

 the secretary's files it will be printed later. 



The reports were referred to a committee, Messrs. D. G. Edmiston, L. 

 B. Rice, and Thomas Jackson. . 



