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REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE 
(Presented to the Society May 31, 1895) 
Wasurncton, D. C., July 10, 1895. 
The President and Members of the National Geographic Society : 
We, a committee appointed at the annual meeting of May 31, 
1895, to audit the accounts of the Treasurer for the period from 
January 1, 1894, to May 31, 1895, beg to submit the following 
report: 
The Treasurer’s statement of receipts, consisting of dues from 
members, life-membership fees, interest on investments; sale of 
magazines and tickets, and of amounts received from miscella- 
neous sources, has been examined and found correct, as shown 
by the books of his office. 
The vouchers for expenditures have been examined and found 
correct. The return checks (except fifteen which had not been 
cashed at time of the closing of the Treasurer’s account) were 
compared with the vouchers and found to agree. 
We have examined the bank book, showing the account with 
Messrs Bell & Co., and found the cash balance to be four hun- 
dred and twenty-nine dollars and sixty cents, which exceeded 
the Treasurer’s reported balance of one hundred and seven dol- 
lars and forty-nine cents by three hundred’ and twenty-two 
dollars and eleven cents, the amount of the fifteen return checks 
referred to in the paragraph above, one of which represented $50 
advanced to the Secretary. 
The amount of outstanding dues reported by the Treasurer as 
$1,326 was carefully examined and found correct. We have 
prepared a full list of these outstanding dues for the use of the 
next Auditing Committee. 
The four bonds of $100 each and one of $50, rezistered in the 
name of the Society, were inspected by us in the hands of the 
Treasurer. | 
Wn. A. DeCarnpry, 
EC) Riga 
Auditing Committee. 
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