4 Annual Meeting. 



Brought forward £15 18 11 



Paid Expenses of publishing Transactions for last year as 

 follows : — 



"Dumfries Standard" for Printing ... £15 12 



Postage of Transactions ... .. ... 186 



Delivery of Do. 3 6 



17 4 



Paid Secretary's Po.stages and Outlays 7 6 



Paid Treasurer's Do. Do 16 1 



Miscellaneous Payments .. .. .- •• 5 7 



£42 11 11 



Statement as to the cost of publication of " Birrens and its 

 Antiquities" for year ending 29th September, 1900. 



Balance due to the Treasurer as at .30th September, 1899 ... £11 10 

 Xcs 5 2 Copies sold at 3s each, 6s 6 



Balance due Treasurer .. ... ... ... .. £10 14 10 



Election of Office-Bearees. 



Hon. /Ve.«c/e»/— Right Hon. Sir Herbert IM.a.xwkll, Bart., M.P. 



Yke-Pre4de.niK — Rev. John C-\irns, Mr Robert Murray, Mr James Bar- 

 bour, and Provost Glover. 



Joint Hon. Secretaries — J. Maxwell Ross and Bertram M'CtOwak. 



Treasurer — J. A. Moodie. 



Curators of Library and Museum— Messrs Andsox and Lennox. 



Curators of Herbarium — Tioiessor Scott-Elliot, Misses Hann.w and 

 Miss Ckesswell. 



Co7incil— Messrs James Clark ; James Davidson Maxwell, Terregles 

 Bank ; Starke, Troqueer Holm ; \V. Murray of Murraythwaite ; Dr 

 Clark, Miss Hannay, and Miss Cresswell. 



My liobert Murray reported that he had collected a sum of 

 £26 for the purpose of cariying on excavations at the Crannog at 

 Lochrutton and for other smaller work. 



lOtli Noveuibei% 1000. 



Mr James Bakbour in the chair. 



A^ew Member. — Mr John S. Stobie, Upholsterer, Dumfries. 



