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Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting 



March. Glens P^alls Printing Co., printing 



proceedings of Society 131 92 



Postage 1 1 48 



July. Humphrey, envelopes 150 



254 55 



June 15, 1897, balance in hands of Treasurer. $327 77 



42 New street, New York City, June 14, 1897. 

 To the Members of the American Fisheries Society: 



Gentlemen — I find from the Treasurer's books that it has 

 been the custom of late years for the Treasurer to present at the 

 annual meeting of the society a statement w'ith balance, etc., 

 but not a correct statement for the fiscal year, for which they 

 were made, for the reason that a considerable amount of dues 

 for and belonging to the then succeeding year, have been col- 

 lected and credited to the year previous, to which they were due 

 and belonged. For instance, in the statement for the year 1893 

 there were $138 of the dues of the year 1894 collected and cred- 

 ited. In the statement of 1894 there was $30 of the year 1895 

 dues collected and credited to 1894 statement, and bills incurred 

 and presented for that year to the amount of $156.70 not men- 

 tioned in the statement, which were paid and charged in the 

 year 1895 statement. The statement for the year 1893 shows a 

 balance Cr. of $67.49, whereas the actual balance for that fiscal 

 year was Dr. $70.51, $138 credited to 1893 were from dues of and 

 belonging to 1894. The balance as shown for the year 1894 was 

 Cr. $80.65, whereas the figures on the Treasurer's book for the 

 fiscal year 1894 showed a balance Dr. of $66.29. The balance 

 as shown by the statement for 1895 was Cr. $141.32, while the 

 figures for the fiscal year of 1895 showed a balance of $328.02, 

 the balance for June, 1894, having received the benefit of $186.70 

 belonging to the fiscal year of 1895. The statement herewith 

 presented is for the fiscal year 1896; the receipts over expendi- 

 tures being $186.45, which, added to the balance with the Treas- 

 urer at the commencement of the year of $141.32, leaves the 

 actual balance of ^7,27.77 now in the treasury. 



Immediatelv after having been elected president of the soci- 

 ety, June 12, 1895, I made an examination of the list of mem- 

 bers as then of record on the Treasurer's book with their re- 

 spective payment of dues, and took a verified copy of same; and 

 with the assistance of Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, the then Secretary 



