The foregoing report was accepted and adopted.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER-GENERAL.
The treasurer-general of the Society, Hon. John C. Linehan of Concord, N. H., then presented his annual report. It showed the total income for the year 1899 to have been $2,228.50. Cash balance on hand Jan. 1, 1899, $518.60, thus making the total financial resources of the Society for the year $2,747.10.
The expenditures for 1899, as set forth in detail in the report, were $2,008.86, leaving a balance on hand of $738.24.
Joseph Smith of Lowell, Mass., for the auditing committee, reported having examined the books and vouchers of the treasurer-general and found the same correct.
The treasurer-general’s report was thereupon accepted and adopted.
A communication to the society was announced from Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, governor of New York, in which he invited the members to be his guests at the executive mansion in Albany.
The invitation was appreciatively received and acknowledged, and the president-general was authorized to appoint a delegation to represent the society by a visit to the governor.
The president-general announced that he would do so, and state the make-up of the delegation later.
Hon. T. A. E. Weadock of Detroit, Mich., an ex-member of Congress, presented the names of several applicants for membership in the Society, and the said applicants were unanimously admitted.