APPENDIX G CXX VII 
On the 17th May, 1905, we held our organization meeting, and 
I shall now call upon the Secretary to read the minutes of that meet- 
ing and of a meeting of the provisional council then appointed, in order 
that they may be approved. 
The minutes above referred to were then read and approved. The 
following is an abstract: 
“At the organization meeting the constitution (of which a copy 
has been forwarded to the members) was approved, and the provisional 
officers and council were appointed. 
“At the subsequent meeting of the provisional committee a list 
was approved covering the first 250 members, and also the subscriptions 
of twenty public libraries in Great Britain, the United States and Can- 
ada. The date of the present meeting was also fixed, in accordance with 
the constitution.” 
The treasurer’s report, as follows, was then read and approved: 

1906. 
8th May—Annual subscription, 1905-6, of 200 
members at 910reache MMM Gels $2,000 
Annual Subscriptions, 1905-6, six 
Libraries at $10 each: ... 7... 60 
$2,060.00 
1905. 
30th Oct.—Expense of meeting of members of 
the council in Ottawa preparing 
list of works proposed for publi- 
CAO AREA LU ANS Uae) bi $58.00 
Printing, stationery and postage... 94.77 

Balancevin Bank 2.5 ». 260! $1,907.23 
Mr. Walker continued: 
In addition to 250 members we have a waiting list of ten. It 1s 
hoped to have on our list most of the leading libraries in the world as 
subscribing members, but this will probably not be accomplished until 
after our first publications have appeared. The intention is to limit 
our publications to 500 copies of each volume; of these. 250 will go 
to the members, and the rest will be available for libraries. No copies 
will be offered for sale in any other form. The income to be derived 
from the membership fees and that from libraries will eventually. it is 
hoped, amount to from $4,000 to $5,000. I think we may regard what 
has been said and read so far as a report to the members of the 
