18 Annual Eep&rt. [Feb. 



A vacancy in the office of Trustee having occurred by the death of 

 Dr. H. W. McCann, Mr. F. E. Pargiter was elected a Trustee on behalf 

 of the Society. 



Finance. 



The Appendix contains the usual classified Statement shewing the 

 accounts of the Asiatic Society. 



Under Statement No. 1 will be found the account of receipts and 

 disbursements of the Asiatic Society during the year 1884!. 



Statement Nos. 2 and 3 show how the money administered through 

 the Society in the Oriental Publication and Sanskrit Manuscripts Funds 

 has been spent during the past year. A fixed allowance of Rs. 750 per 

 month is given by the Government of India to the Oriental Publication 

 Fund, and a yearly sum of Rs. 3,200 is paid by the same authority to the 

 credit of the Sanskrit Manuscripts Fund. 



Statement No. 4 gives an account of monies due by and to the 

 Members of this Society. 



In Statement No. 5 an account is given of the sums invested in 

 Government securities and held in deposit by the Bank of Bengal. 

 They consist of Rs. 21,800 in 4 per cent. Government paper and 

 Rs. 1,37,000 in 4| per cent. Government paper, making together 

 Rs. 1,58,800. 



Statement No. 6 shows the sum invested, known as the Piddington 

 Trust Fund, the interest of which is applied to the payment of a pension 

 to an old servant of the Society. 



The Cash receipts and expenditure of the Society as well as those 

 of the different funds are summed up in Statement No. 7. 



Statement No. 8 exhibits the balance sheet of the different 

 statements. 



The budget for the past year was estimated by the Council of the 

 Society thus : Receipts Rs. 15,725. Expenditure Rs. 15,429. The 

 actuals of the year were found to be : Receipts Rs. 15,154. Expenditure 

 Rs. 14,805. 



In the receipts under the head *' Subscriptions " a decrease of Rs. 700 

 has taken place, and this is due to the high figure at which the amount was 

 budgetted for last year. According to the number of Members, resident, 

 non-resident and foreign, on the list of the Society at the close of the past 

 year, an amount of Rs. 7,600 only could have been raised ; but as there 

 were large arrears due from Members, it was expected that some portion 

 of them would be realized, and would thus raise the total subscriptions to 

 Rs. 8,000. Although every available means has been employed to call in 

 the outstandings, yet the efforts have been far from successful. A dozen 



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