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��Journal of American Folk-Lore.
��Members are requested to do what they can to increase the mem- bership roll, and advised to promote local organizations for such purpose.
The following is the substance of the Treasurer's Report : —
��RECEIPTS.
Balance on hand December 28, 1897 .... Sales of publications through Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Subscriptions to the Publication Fund
Annual dues received
Sales through Secretary
��DISBURSEMENTS.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for manufacturing Journal of Ameri- can Folk-Lore, four numbers
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for manufacturing Memoirs (less cer- tain credits) ..........
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., mailing expenses to February, 1898 .
Paid to Charles L. Edwards, for stock and copyright in vol. iii. of the Memoirs
Salary of Clerk for the Permanent Secretary
Typewriting for vol. vi. of Memoirs .
Rebates to local branches ....
Expenses of Secretary, stamps, printing, etc.
Envelopes printed for Treasurer
Balance to new account, December 28, 1898
��$1268.35
438.04
350.00
1137.00
3.00
$3i9 6 -39
��$1118.75
261.45 110.17
175.00
150.00 20.00 S5-5o
73-79 24.00
$1988.64
1207.75
$3i9 6 -39
��Notes. The expense of manufacturing vol. vi. of Memoirs was $376.25. The publishers, in making a charge for such manufacturing, deducted the amount of sales of Memoirs from February 1 to August I, amounting to $114.80, which amount ought therefore to be added to the sales of publications as above given, in order to obtain the amount of the yearly sales.
According to a vote of the Council, an annual concession of fifty cents for each member is allowed to local societies having over twenty-five paying members.
The sum above mentioned, as paid to Charles L. Edwards, is a repayment of a like sum advanced by him, in order to secure the publication of vol. iii. of the Memoirs.
In the course of the meeting, the Permanent Secretary announ- cing that he had received no nominations, as provided for by the Rules, nominations of the Council were announced . —
President, Prof. Charles L. Edwards, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, O.
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