514 The Fifty-Seventh General Meeting. 



" The Committee beg to present the fifty -seventh annual report 

 of the Society. 



" Members. — The number of Members on the books on June 14th, 

 1910, was 17 life Members and 369 Annual Subscribers, a total of 

 386 as against 381 in 1909. There have been 4 deaths and 31 

 resignations of membership during the year, whilst 36 new Mem- 

 bers have been elected. The Committee would urge on all present 

 Members the desirability of trying to enlist new residents in their 

 respective neighbourhoods as Members of the Society. 



"Finance. — The financial condition of the Society may be said 

 to be fairly satisfactory. The year 1909 ended with a balance on 

 the General Fund of £37 19s. l^d., as against the balance of 

 £35 2s. o\d. with which it began. The fact that this satisfactory 

 balance exists, in spite of the somewhat heavy expenditure on the 

 printing of the two numbers of the Magazine and the Inquisitioncs 

 post mortem (£165 Is. 5d.) is largely due to the very handsome 

 amount of £23 16s. 2d. handed over to the Society by the Local 

 Committee as the result of the Bradford Meeting last year. Of 

 the special funds, the ' Tropenell Cartulary Fund ' shows a balance 1 

 of £25 9s. 5d., which remains available for special printing expenses j 

 in the future. The Museum Maintenance Fund, to which there 

 are now about eighty subscribers, received during 1909 £40 10s. 6d. I 

 in subscriptions, whilst the amount of admission fees and donations | 

 in the box at the Museum was £7 17s. 9d. This fund continues to I 

 be of the greatest possible value, not merely to the Museum, but I 

 incidentally to the whole work of the Society, for in proportion as I 

 the General Fund is relieved of the cost of the maintenance of the '■ 

 Museum, more money is available for illustrations and other im- I 

 provements in the Magazine. The ideal to be aimed at seems to I 

 be to raise this fund to an amount which shall be sufficient to bear |i 

 the whole cost of the Museum, of which £37 17s. 4d. last year fell 

 on the General Fund of the Society. Of the £50 borrowed from 

 the General Fund two years ago, £9 18s. 2d., from the rent of the 

 house, has been repaid, leaving £40 Is. lOd. to be repaid. The j 

 only outstanding debt is the £50 still owing to Mr. W. Heward ' 

 Bell out of the sum of £200 lent by him, without interest, several I 



