108 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Report of the Executive Committee for the year 1877. 



To the Members of the Maine State Pomological Society : 



The Executive Committee hereby report that they have examined the account of 



the Treasurer, for the year ending December 31, 1877, and have found the same to be 



correctly stated and properly vouched. 



They have drawn orders on the Treasurer during the year as follows : 



For outstanding bills of 1876 $29 43 



Expenses of Winter Meeting, 1877 42 74 



Binding annual reports for 1876 35 32 



Expenses of annual exhibition, 1877 361 40 



Miscellaneous expenses 31 28 



$500 17 



The items of expenditure embraced in the orders drawn as above, are : 



Bills of exhibition of 1876 $18 89 



Postage and express bills 48 46 



Printing, binding and stationery 115 97 



Stenographic reports 20 00 



Labor and materials at annual exhibition 160 67 



Travelling expenses of oflBcers 136 18 



$500 17 



The officers have received no compensation except for actual expenses incurred in 

 attending to the business of the Society. 



The financial condition of the Society on the 31st day of December, 1877, was as 



follows : 



Assets. 



Cash in the treasury $167 35 



Amount due from the State for 1877 500 00 



Amount due for membership, to be deducted from premiums 20 00 



Accrued interest on permanent fund 5 25 



Amount available as resources 692 60 



Permanent fund, including $50 due from the Society 470 00 



Property owned by the Society, estimated 100 00 



Totalassets $1,262 60 



Liabilities. 



Amount due on temporary loans $390 00 



" due to the permanent fund 50 00 



" of orders drawn and unpaid 200 89 



•' of unpaid premiums 699 00 



$1,339 89 



[ Excess of liabilities over available resources .... $647 29 

 Excess of liabilities over total assets 77 29 ] 



WiNTHBOP, March 1, 1878. 



By order of the Executive Committee. 



GEORGE B. SAWYER, Secretary. 



