108 ANNUAL MEETING, MAY 19. 



EXPENDITURES. 



Paid on General Account • 



Salaries $1832 00 



Publications 1081 80 



Fuel and Gas 257 79 



Binding, Printing, Books and Stationery .... 401 81 



Repairs, Express, Postage, etc 125 75 



Salem Athen je um, Rent and Labor 350 00 



$4049 15 



Paid on Historical Account . 56 26 



" " Nat. History " 56 25 



" " Ditniore Fund Annuity HO 00 



Interest on Manuscript Fund funded in Savings Bank 24 94 



" " Derby Fund funded in Savings Bank . . 28 72 



'• '" Davis Fund funded at Savings Bank . . 12 16 



" " Story Fund, paid to Legatee 563 00 



Paid Mote $500 and interest 541 04 



Balance on band 94 



$5,442 46 



The invested funds are now $45,832 60 



Examined and approved by the Auditor, May 19, 1884. 



The Secretaiy in concluding his report, says : 

 The urgent need of room for the shelving and arrange- 

 ment of donations to the Library and the Museum, forces it- 

 selt* upon the attention of the officers of the Institute daily. 

 In some of the cases books are already piled three deep, and 

 valuable gifts to the Museum are stored away in drawers 

 and other places, practically valueless to visitors for the pur- 

 poses of examination. During the past year the matter of 

 increased accommodations has been onee more agitated, 

 and plans for an addition to the present building have been 

 laid before some of the officers of the Salem Athenaeum 

 and of the Institute for their informal consideration. The 

 lack of funds to carry out these improvements appears to be 

 the only reason for delaying a movement in thisdirection. 

 Thirty thousand dollars, it is believed, would give ample 

 room to both the Athenseum and the Institute. Some re- 

 lief must be devised and that speedily. The subject is 

 asfain commended to the attention of the directors. 



