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Report of the Executive Committee read by the chairman : 



Brethren ; We, your Executive Board, hereby submit our annual 

 report as follows : 



The first duty of your board, after the adjournment of the Supreme 

 Council last year, was to secure bonds from the secretary and treas- 

 urer, and to start the officers in the execution of their duties in the 

 city of Washington. The secretary, Brother Turner, made bond in 

 the sum of $10,000, which was approved as good and deemed suffi- 

 cient under the rules made by this board ; that the secretary should 

 promptly every day deposit all money received in the Second National 

 Bank, in Washington, District of Columbia, which bank received such 

 money under instructions not to pay out any portion of it, except on 

 warrants signed by the secretary, approved by the president, and bear- 

 ing the imprint of the seal of the order. With this careful method 

 of handling the funds, a bond of $10,000 was considered amply suffi- 

 cient for the secretary to give. 



The treasurer, Brother Hickman, promptly made a good and suffi- 

 cient bond, but the sureties having failed to make oath as. to their 

 solvency, it was returned to him for correction, and owing to the 

 satisfactory working as to the present system of keeping the funds in 

 bank, this board has not insisted on the bond being made by the treas- 

 urer. He was ready to give all the bond required, but the money 

 coming in during the year has not exceeded the amounts necessary 

 to meet the running expenses, and it would have been both troublesome 

 and expensive to pay it into a treasury in Missouri, when it was imme- 

 diately necessary to pay it out again in Washington. For these reasons 

 the treasurer has not been required to perform the duties of his office, 

 but the Supreme Council, at its last session, voted to that officer a sal- 

 ary of $500 per year. He has presented no claim for the salary and 

 performed none of the duties. Your board desires instructions as to 

 whether the salary shall be allowed him or not. 



The gross amount of salaries voted by the last Supreme Council to 

 the officers of the order, aggregated $10,500. The expenditure for 

 delegates to the St. Louis meeting has amounted to $2687.94. The 

 sum of $1000 was voted to the officers of the previous year, and the 

 president-elect was allowed $900 for a stenographer and office and 

 travelling expenses. The secretary was allowed office expenses ; the 

 lecturer, travelling expenses ; the members of the Executive Board, 

 travelling expenses ; and the national crop statistician, printing and 

 postage expenses. All these obligations were incurred by the Supreme 



