RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.

The total receipts from per capita tax and supplies sold during the year are $12,282.42, the smallest amount received from these sources since the very early history of the Order; although but $1,047.18 less than the amount received from the same source in 1899.

The Council of Administration authorized but 5,000 copies of the Journal of the 34th National Encampment to be printed, as against 9,000, the smallest number heretofore authorized. This, with a reduction in the usual number of General Orders issued, has made a saving of about $1,000 on these two items. Expenses for stenographic services at the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief, and a reduction in the salary of the Custodian of Records from $900 to $600, has saved more than another $1,000. There has been a reduction in the expense of Committee work, although the Executive Committee was necessarily called together December 17, 1900, and Janaury 21, 1901, on account of the change in the place of holding the 35th National Encampment. The Commander-in-Chief occupied most of the time from the latter part of February to the latter part of June in visiting Department Encampments, traveling from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Canadian border to the Gulf. His total traveling expense was $462.01, thus forming the largest item of economy for the past year. The total expense incurred by the Grand Army of the Republic for the past year, is $13,265.79. Of this sum $1,865.41 was paid out on vouchers issued by Past Commander-in-Chief Albert D. Shaw and Adjutant-General Thos. J. Stewart since the report of the latter to the 34th National Encampment, and $1,035 10 were paid out on vouchers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, signed by the present Commanderin-Chief and his Adjutant General for debts incurred by the Grand Army of the Republic during the previous administration. These two latter sums aggregating $2,900.51 deducted from the $13.265.79 would show the actual expense of your administration to have been up to the present time $10,365.28, * or $2,900.51 less expense for the past year than the smallest expense reported for any one year since the very early history of the Order. From this amount, however, the approximate

*Should be $2,964.32.

THIRTY-FIFTH NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT

expense of the Order for August and up to and including the 13th day of September, 1901, of about $500 should be deducted. Two more General Orders were issued during the year than would have been necessary but for the change in the place of holding the National Encampment. The expense of General Orders are about $100 each.

Comparative Table of Receipts and Expenditures-1890 to 1901, Inclusive.

$3,001.46 from first half 1891.