18 American Fisheries Society 



PERMANENT FUND 



Balance as reported at 1919 meeting $2,955.86 



Interest (since added) 181.13 



Deposits during 1920 75.00 



$3,211.99 

 Disbursement, Lewis Radcliffe for prize paper 100.00 



Balance $3,111.99 



Arthur L. Millett, 



Treasurer. 

 The report of the Treasurer was referred to the Auditing Committee. 



Mr. Millett: The sum of about $600 in dues is still 

 unpaid, notwithstanding my best efforts to make collections. 

 The dues outstanding are chiefly for 1918 and 1919; they 

 do not run farther back than 1917, and they involve 108 in- 

 dividuals. The organization cannot continue on a paying 

 basis unless we do something in regard to this matter. Last 

 year I showed you a balance of over $600. This year it is 

 $200; next year, if the same proportionate decrease continues, 

 we shall be in debt. We cannot afford to do that; the name 

 of the organization is worth too much. We must either raise 

 the dues or find some way of collecting these arrears. 



Mr. J. W. TiTCOMB, Albany, N. Y. : As I understand it, 

 the Society cannot expect as large a revenue next year as it 

 had last year, because last year the treasurer collected a lot 

 of dues that had been a long time in arrears. So we have not 

 the asset, if you call it an asset, that we had before. I do not 

 think the members of the Society realize that when we publish 

 the Transactions at considerable cost and send them out year 

 after year to people who do not pay their dues, we are rob- 

 bing ourselves ; we are giving them something for which they 

 make no return. 



Mr. Adams: May I ask whether there is anything in the 

 by-laws that would prevent our passing a resolution providing 

 that if the dues of a delinquent member are not paid within 

 thirty days after receiving from the treasurer a notice by reg- 

 istered mail, his name shall be stricken from the membership 

 of the Society? 



