TREASURERS' REPORT. 
1876-77. 
The annual subscriptions from Members and Associates during the 
past year amount to .£197 18s. 6d., in addition to £8 8s. due for 
arrears, showing, notwithstanding several withdrawals, an increase 
of £21 upon the receipts under these heads last year. The sums 
paid for rent of the Hall are also in excess of those received for 
the last four years. 
On the other hand, the expenditure has been large, owing to the 
expense incurred in the repair and renovation of the Building. 
The total payments on this account have reached £200 18s. Id., 
the amount, within a few shillings, of the estimate of the Curator 
of the Euilding. It was thought that it would have been necessary 
to borrow the whole of the money required for this purpose, and 
the Council authorized your Treasurers to overdraw the account at 
the bank to this extent. Fortunately, however, the anticipations 
of your Treasurers were not realized, and they have not been 
obliged to carry out their instructions to the full, as with the 
money in hand from last year, and the increased revenue, the 
adverse balance is now only £109 lis. 4d. The old debt of £100 
still of course remains due, and the total liability of the Society at 
the present time is £209 Us. 4d., instead of £300 or thereabout, 
as was expected. The other items do not call for remark, the 
expenditure on the whole being much as usual. The donation of 
Dr. Holmes, referred to in last year's Report, has been laid out in 
the purchase of the publications of the Early English Text Society, 
to complete, as far as possible at present, the set in the Library. 
If the receipts continue as at present, and economy is observed, it 
will not, we think, be difficult to make an annual reduction of the 
debt, and extinguish it in the course of three or four years. 
J. BROOKING ROWE, 
S. CATER, 
Dated 2nd April, 1877. 
