THE TREASURER, in account with the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.
1888.
Dec. 27. To cash received from life members $ 100 00
" " for annual dues year 1888 1025 00
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$1125 00
1888.
Apr. 16. By Cash--M. F. Peake & Co. (20 chairs) $ 60 00
" Paid Columbian University, rent
of hall 20 00
Oct. 31. " Paid Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor,
for printing and binding
vol. I of Magazine $ 190 56
" Norris Peters, for lithographing
storm plates for Magazine 58 00
" Sundry expenses of Magazine 6 35 254 91
Dec. 27. " Paid Cosmos Club, rent of hall 18 00
" " for miscellaneous expenses:
" " " Printing 74 50
" " " Stationery 28 35
" " " Postage 29 15
" " " Sundries 13 39 145 39
Balance on hand (Bank of Bell & Co.) 626 70
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$1125 00
C. J. BELL,
_Treasurer_.
December 28, 1888.
_To the National Geographic Society:_
The undersigned, having been appointed an Auditing Committee to examine
the accounts of the Treasurer for 1888, have the honor to make the
following report:
We have compared the receipts with the official list of members and
find complete agreement. We have compared the disbursements with the
vouchers for the same and find them to have been duly authorized and
correctly recorded. We have examined the bank account and compared the
checks accompanying the same. We have compared the balance in the hands
of the Treasurer as shown by the ledger ($626.70) with the balance as
shown by the bank book ($644.70) and found them consistent, the
difference being explained by the fact that a check for $18 drawn in
favor of the Secretary of the Cosmos Club has not yet been presented
for payment. We find the condition of the accounts entirely
satisfactory.
Very respectfully,
S. H. KAUFMANN.
G. K. GILBERT.