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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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