Annual Meeting. 



Brought forward .. . 



Arrears paid ... 



Copie.s of Transaction.s sold... 



Interest on Bank account ... 



Proceeds of Dr Macdonald's Lecture on the Inscribed Stones 

 of Birrens ... 



Donation from Mr George Neilson, P.F., Glasgow, towards 

 cost of publishing his paper on " Old Annan " in Trans- 

 actions ... ... ... 



To balance due to Treasurer at 30th Sept., 1896 £2 11 3 



i/Cs.s - Balance in Savings Bank . ... .. 13 7 



1 1 



£52 1 6i 



DISCHARGE. 



Paid Salary of Keeper of Rooms and additional gratuity for 



Heating Rooms ... 

 Paid for Stationery, Printing, &c. 

 Paid for Periodicals and Books 



Paid for Coals and Gas 



Paid Fire Insurance Premirm 



Paid Secretary's Outlays and Posts 



Paid Treasurer's do. 



Paid expenses of calling Meetings as follows : 



Post Cards 



Addressing same ... 



Printing same 



Paid expenses of Publishing Transactions for last year as 

 follows : — 

 Postages of Transactions to country members £0 9 9 

 Account to Stevenson & Ogilvie, Lithographers, 



Edinburgh, for Photo. Plates 3 5 9 



Account to Dumfries Herald for Printing Trans- 

 actions ... ... ... ... ... ... 25 15 8 



Paid expenses of 1 )t Macdonald's Lecture 

 Paid for Repairs ... 

 Miscellaneous 



J. A. MOODIE, Hon. Treas. 



Dumfries, 31st December, 1896. — I have examined the foregoing 

 Account, and the Cash Book of the Society, compared them with the 

 V^ouchers, and find the balance stated to be correct. 



JOHN NEILSON. 



