Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society/Volume 2/Report of the Treasurer
The Hon. Treasurer's Report.
The list of Members of the Society, handed to me for the collection of the subscriptions, included 155 names, exclusive of those of four Honorary Members; but of these, two were subsequently withdrawn as having been entered through some misapprehension, the number of the subscribing members being thus reduced to 153.
On the 1st December, the whole of the subscriptions had been paid with the exception of 16, of which four have since been paid; eight are likely to be paid shortly; and four may be considered as withdrawn.
Annexed is an abstract of the cash account of the year, from which it will be seen that the Receipts amounted to $827.50 and the payments to $517.98, the transactions resulting in a balance to the credit of the Society of $309.52. The subscriptions for 1878, to be received in 1879, amounted to $72; but on the other hand one subscription, $6, was paid in 1878 in advance for 1879; and there were bills for 1878 outstanding at the end of the year to the amount of $41.60. The general result is shewn by the annexed statement of Assets and Liabilities, from which it will be seen that the net balance to the credit of the Society at the close of the year was $333.92.
This appears to be as satisfactory a position as could have been anticipated, but it must be borne in mind that it results from the fact that the Society, while it has received the subscriptions for the entire year, has only issued one number of the Journal, instead of the two numbers, which it is pro- posed to issue yearly in future.
The cost of the publication of the number of the Journal for July did not much fall short of $400; and though the cost of the subsequent numbers is likely to be less consider- able, the publication of the two numbers must be expected to absorb a very considerable proportion of the income of the Society, which does not appear likely much to exceed $900 a year.
Straits Asiatic Society.
Cash account 1878.
| $ | C | |
| Sub'tions for 1878 | 817 | 50 |
| Sub'tionsdo. for„ 1879 | 6 | |
| Sale of Journal | 1 | |
| 827 | 50 |
| $ | C. | |
| Publication of Journal. | 356 | |
| Photographs | 12 | 50 |
| Lithographs | 6 | 50„ |
| Printing Notices &c. | 26 | 50„ |
| Advertisements | 10 | 52 |
| Allowance to Clerk | 60 | |
| Gas | 7 | |
| Postage | 26 | 59 |
| Stationery | 6 | 62 |
| Miscellaneous | 6 | 75 |
| 517 | 98 | |
| Balance | 309 | 52 |
| 827 | 50 |
Assets and Liabilities
1st January, 1879.
| $ | C. | |
| Balance Chartered Mercantile Bank | 297 | 52 |
| Balance Cash | 12 | 00 |
| Subscriptions 1878 outstanding | 72 | |
| $381.52 | ||
| $ | C. | |
| Bills outstanding Pub. of Journal (final) | 25 | |
| Sundries for December | 16 | 60 |
| Subscription for 1879 in advance | 6 | |
| 47.60 | ||
| Balance to credit | 333.92 | |
| $381.52 | ||