I further report that the Coupons due June 1, 1916 on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas 1st Mortgage Bonds, held by the Society amounting to $120 have not yet been paid.

CHARLES C. BURKE, Treasurer.

Accounts and vouchers audited this day and found correct.
NEW YORK, November 20th, 1916.

THOMAS DENNY,
C. W. MCCUTCHEN.
Finance Committee.

The report was accepted and ordered placed on file. The report of the Charity Committee was read, as follows:

To The New England Society of the City of New York:

The Committee on Charity report that during the past year, upon their recommendation to the Board of Officers, the following appropriations have been authorized:

1. An annuity of $50 has been continued to the daughter of a deceased life member.

2. An annuity of $155 has been continued to the needy daughter of a deceased annual member, who has paid into the treasury $155.

3. The Board continued a grant of $25 a month to a needy sister, aged seventy-eight years, of a deceased member, who died leaving no estate and upon whom the sister was entirely dependent.

4. The Board has appropriated $150 to be applied to the assistance of a needy New England family of three persons.

5. An annuity of $100 has been continued to the widow of a deceased life member.

6. The Board has continued in a suitable institutional home, at a charge of $170 per year, a destitute member who was elected to the Society more than forty years ago.

7. The Board has granted $50 a year for the personal expenses of an aged and worthy New England woman, who was earlier placed in a suitable institutional home partly by the aid of the Society.

8. The Board has granted $250 toward the expenses in a sanitarium of an aged and invalid member.

9. The Board has granted an annuity of $70 to the wife of a deceased life member.

10. The Board has granted an annuity of $100 to the aged widow of a deceased life member.

11. The Board has granted $200 for the assistance of an aged New England woman.

The Committee also report that the total amount expended during the fiscal year is $1,595 00.

December 1, 1916.

Respectfully submitted,

CHARLES H. BECKETT,

Chairman, Committee on Charity.

The report was accepted and ordered to be placed

on file.

The report of the Secretary on the condition of the membership of the Society, December 1, 1916, was read, as follows:

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY ON THE CONDITION OF THE

MEMBERSHIP OF THE SOCIETY, DECEMBER 1, 1916.

Number of members on the rolls, December 1, 1915...
Elections from that date to December 1, 1916:

By the Society. . .

By the Board of Officers.

1,174

The following deaths have been reported since Decem

ber 1, 1915:

Horatio Winslow Thayer, in the 76th year of his age.

Charles Clifford Barrows, died January 2, 1916.

George Fitch Perkins, died January 3, 1916.

Grenville M. Dodge, died January 3, 1916, in the 85th year of his age.

Arthur Gale Johnson, died January 6, 1916, in the 54th year of his age.

Clarence D. Ashley, died January 26, 1916, in the 65th year of his age.

George Nelson Williams, died February 1, 1916, in the 89th year of

his age.

Samuel G. French, died February 21, 1916, in the 73d year of his age. Joseph Griswold, died February 21, 1916, in the 76th year of his age. Richard A. McCurdy, died March 6, 1916, in the 82d year of his age. Charles B. Webster, died March 16, 1916, in the 70th year of his age. Augustus C. Downing.

Gardner Wetherbee, died March 25, 1916, in the 84th year of his age. Elmer L. Corthell, died May 16, 1916, in the 77th year of his age. William M. St. John, died May 19, 1916.

Nathan Seeley, died June 27, 1916, in the 70th year of his age.

Henry M. Lester, died July 1, 1916.

Alexander H. Stevens, died July 10, 1916, in the 83d year of his age.
Albert J. Holden, died July 16, 1916, in the 75th year of his age.
Hugh Hastings, died July 28, 1916, in the 62d year of his age.
James Talcott, died August 21, 1916, in the 82d year of his age.
Elizur B. Hinsdale, died August 23, 1916, in the 85th year of his age.
Charles Phelps Williams, died August 23, 1916, in the 76th year of

his age.

Seth Low, died September 17, 1916, in the 67th year of his age. Edward C. Sampson, died September 25, 1916, in the 80th year of

his age.

Benjamin S. Harmon, died October 14, 1916.

George Langdon Jewett, died November 14, 1916.

Arthur Osborne Jennings, died November 30, 1916.

The following deaths, not reported at the time, have been recorded:

Charles J. Townsend, died July 2, 1908.

Henry W. Poor, died April 13, 1915, in the 71st year of his age.
Thomas Henry French.

file.

Respectfully submitted,

HARRY A. CUSHING, Secretary.

The report was accepted and ordered to be placed on

The Chairman having appointed as tellers Mr. Ruel W. Poor and Mr. Edwin Langdon, they collected and counted the ballots, and reported that all had been cast in favor of the "regular ticket" which was named at the special meeting of the Society, November 28, and the Moderator declared that those gentlemen had been duly elected.

The Membership Committee reported favorably upon the following candidates, and they were duly elected members of the Society:

George F. Baker, Jr., proposed by Francis L. Hine, and recommended by Austin B. Fletcher.

F. Worthington Hine, proposed by Francis L. Hine, and recommended by Austin B. Fletcher.

Lyman N. Hine, proposed by Francis L. Hine, and recommended by Austin B. Fletcher.

The Moderator announced that at the conclusion of the meeting the members of the Society and their guests would be addressed by Mr. Loring Underwood, on the subject, "Old New England Gardens."

The meeting then adjourned.

RUSSELL E. BURKE, Secretary pro tem.

LECTURERS BEFORE THE SOCIETY

1911.-JACOB W. MILLER: New England's Interest in the Cape Cod Canal.

1912. CHARLES K. BOLTON: The Antiquities of New England.

1913. GEORGE H. TRIPP: Whaling Ventures and Ad

ventures.

1914. GEORGE FRANCIS Dow: The River Agawam, an Essex County Waterway.

1915.-ZELOTES W. COOMBS: Historic and Literary Con

cord.

1916.-LORING UNDERWOOD: Old New England Gardens.