commissions and shipping expenses from United States and England to the Congo Less saved in appropriations of last year DANISH MISSION. 300 00 250 00 4,500 00 $43,765 16 1,540 32 $41,924 S4 1,890 00 1,Sco 00 1,800 00 PUBLICATIONS. For 1,100 copies of eighty-second annual report, and extra expenses of July magazine contain ing it missionary magazines for file and distribution missionary tracts and leaflets, and the Hand-Book ANNUITIES. Paid sundry annuitants who have given money on condition that a specified sum shall be paid during their lives or the lives of others.... 2,737 OS 19,504 42 expenses of shipping agents in London... miscellaneous. $2,081 27 1,533 14 691 26 2,318 22 travelling expenses of executive officers and others, under direction of executive committee.. 1,926 expenses honorary life members' certificates rearranging library and literature. 10 47 61 76 173 50 11,233 S2 4,281 86 100 00 $580,955 58 163,827 63 $744,783 21 RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1897. From donations reported in the Missionary Magazine, exclusive of $30,000 received designated for the debts, $258,298 95 legacies Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society.. of the West.. 45,740 59 75,985 23 Gordon memorial fund. Bible day collection income of Bangkok property 1,321 44 S12 64 $415,639 23 In addition to the $452,061.89 there has been added to the permanent funds and those on which annuities are paid $15,140, making the gross receipts of the year $467,201.89. MISSIONARY ROOMS, TREMONT TEMPLE, BOSTON, May 8, 1897. The auditing committee hereby certify that they have examined the cash book of the treasurer each month during the past year and have found the balances correct, the payments being properly vouched for. They have also examined the securities belonging to the American Baptist Missionary Union, and find the same in hand or properly accounted for. DANIEL C. LINSCOTT, Auditing Committee. HON. ROBERT O. FULLER, Chairman. Ministers. REV. MOSES H. BIXBY, D.D., Recording Secretary. CLASS I. TERM EXPIRES 1898. P. S. Henson, D.D., Chicago, Ill. Ministers. Laymen. George A. Pillsbury, Minneapolis, Minn. James L. Howard, Hartford, Conn. Mrs. E. R. Stillwell, Dayton, O. CLASS II. TERM EXPIRES 1899. W. T. Stott, D.D., Franklin, Ind. Ministers. W. N. Clarke, D.D., Hamilton, N.Y. H. L. Stetson, D.D., Des Moines, Ia. Laymen. P. Bonney, Portland, Me. W. W. Keen, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa. Churchill H. Cutting, Brooklyn, N.Y. Women. Mrs. Horace A. Noble, Buffalo, N.Y. CLASS III. TERM EXPIRES 1900. EX OFFICIO. Laymen. Hon. Julius J. Estey, Brattleboro, Vt. George G. Dutcher, Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. J. E. Scott, Evanston, Ill. The President, Vice-Presidents, and Recording Secretary of the Missionary Union, and the Presidents of the four Woman's Societies; also three members of the Executive Committee to be chosen by the Committee. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AT THE ROOMS. |