TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT AT 
annually, viz., $8,000, which is a little more than twice the 
amount subscribed by employees. Your committee hope during 
the year 1916 to be able to increase the principal of the Pension 
Fund so that it will not be necessary for the Society to make 
this annual cash subscription, which during 1915 amounted to 
$3,415. Experience has shown that this annual drain on the 
Society, if continued, will greatly cripple its work. 
The pension plan during the year has worked very smoothly, 
and a full statement from the Pension Board appears later in 
this report. 
During the year employees have paid in to the Pension 
Fund Income Account $3,172.18, and the Society has paid $8,000. 
On December 31, 1915, there was a cash balance on hand of 
$15,139.91, of which $10,171.46 has been invested in quickly 
convertible securities. 
OVERDRAFTS. 
Under the contract with the City it is necessary for the 
Society to advance funds for the purchase of maintenance sup- 
plies and pay rolls at the Park and the Aquarium, reimburse- 
ments being made by the City from time to time. When the 
balances to the credit of the different funds of the Society in the 
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company are low, it is probable that 
the above procedure will cause an overdraft, as has frequently 
happened in former years. To provide against this contingency 
your committee have authorized the Treasurer to deposit with 
the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, securities belonging to 
the Society in the amount of $50,000, to be held as a guarantee 
against overdrafts which may be made from time to time upon 
the account of the Society. 
CORPORATE STOCK. 
The entire issue of Corporate Stock authorized by the City 
authorities in 1914 in the amount of $18,425, and which had 
been held up, was released during the year, and with the bal- 
ance of $7,518.32 already available for the Animal Hospital, is 
as follows: 
Construction of a Hospital Building to be 
located inthe Service. Vard.. 2.4. $22,518.32 
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