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There is one remaining subject to which the Auditors 

 wish to direct the particular attention of the Society. In 

 the abstract of Liabilities for the year 1833, a claim 

 amounting to £294 14*. 8c?. is specified as arising from the 

 General Establishment. The Auditors conceive it important 

 to the Society at large, and due to one of its principal offi- 

 cers, to state explicitly how the chief part of this charge 

 has arisen, and why it is unpaid. They therefore submit 

 the following extract from the Minutes of Council, dated 

 May 15, 1833:— 



" Resolved unanimously. That the salary attached to the 

 office of Secretary be £200 per annum. 



" Mr. Bennett having been made acquainted by the Pre- 

 sident with the proceedings which had taken place during 

 his absence, expressed his thanks to the Council for the 

 kindness which had induced them to appropriate a compen • 

 sation for the time necessarily occupied by the duties of the 

 Secretaryship, but added his conviction that no member of the 

 Council ought to derive emolument from the Society's funds. 

 In accepting the salary which the Council had attached to 

 the office, he felt therefore bound to declare his intention 

 of appropriating no part of it to his individual purposes." 



It now only remains that the Auditors express their ap- 

 probation, both of the present clear arrangement of the 

 Society's accounts, and of the diligence and punctuality 

 with which they are kept. 



(Signed) JOHN BARLOW. 



W. H. BLAAUW. 



W. CHARSLEY. 



I. HOFFMANN. 



ROBERT HUDSON. 



JAMES WHISHAW. 



CHARLES M. WILLICH. 



33, Brttton-street, March 17, 1834. 



Mills, Jowett, and Mills, BoU-coart, Fleet-street. 



