AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 97 



SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT OF TREASURER. 



I take the liberty of submitting briefly as supplementary to 

 above annual report some subject matter that may be interest- 

 in«»' to such members of the Society as may be present at the 

 28th anntial meetinj^i'. It will be seen by the Treasurer's report 

 that there is a reduction in the balance for the year of flOG.TO; 

 balance in treasury at time of last annual meeting being 

 f!4:01.2(), while present balance is |294.56. This was caused 

 by the reduction of yearly dues last year from |3 to |1. Un- 

 less the membership is greatly increased or the dues are raised 

 again the treasury will soon become depleted. I have looked 

 over the annual j-eports of the Treasurer from 1881 to date. 

 I find at the commencement of the year 1881 there was a defi- 

 cit of 1131.70 in the treasury. The total receipts from 1881 to 

 date (19 years) were f-t.OST, while the disbursements for the 

 same period were |4,530. Add to the disbursements the deficit 

 of |131.7() (due to balance the treasury) makes the total dis- 

 bursements equal, |1,061.70 — leaving a balance of |295.30, 

 which virtually represents the present balance in the treasury. 

 During this period the yearly average membership was 107. the 

 least number of members being 121 for year 1884; the highest, 

 250 for year 1894; the annual dues during the period being 

 |3, except for the year 1898, when it was |1; the yearly aver- 

 age receipts being |2C0.88; the disbursements |245.35, being a 

 yearly average of |15.53, excess of receipts over disbursements. 

 There are now on the list of members revised for use of the 

 Secretary for the coming report (of 1899), 160; members with 

 dues paid in full to date, 120; members owing one year's dues, 

 15; members owing two years' dues, 12; members owing three 

 or more years' dues and liable to be dropped from the list 

 under article two of the constitution for non-payment of dues, 

 13. Have dropped no names from the list for non-payment of 

 dues this year, hoping to be able to collect the dues of some 

 of them. While some of the thirteen have taken no notice of 

 the four requests made of them the past year, others have 

 made promises to pay soon as they could. There was a mem- 

 bershij) of 136 as revised and reported to the Secretary last 

 year. The Secretary has reported to me the names of 28 new 

 members for the year 1898, one of whom, Mr. J. E. McLeed, of 

 Milwaukee, I have been unable to find ; therefore his name does 

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