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Excerpt from Sixty-Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Providence Athenaeum to the Corporation: Submitted September 23, 1901 To the Shareholders of The Providence Athen um: - The Board of directors of The Providence Athenaeum respectfully presents to the shareholders this its sixty-sixth annual report. On the first of October, 1900, the board held its first meeting, and unanimously re-elected Mr. Alfred Stone president and Mr. Stephen H. Arnold, vice-president. The usual standing committees were nominated and elected. Mr. Joseph LeRoy Harrison was re-elected librarian for the ensuing year. At the meeting of November it was announced that Col. R. H. I. Goddard had declined to serve as a director, and a committee was appointed to name a suitable person to fill the vacancy. At the subsequent meeting Mr. Fletcher S. Mason was chosen to the vacant directorship. The treasurer s report shows a total of receipts of $7,757.25 and a total of expenditures of $7,586.75, leaving a balance of $170.50 apparently to the credit of the Athenaeum. This balance is, however, only apparent as there are still outstanding accounts sufficient to leave a small deficit. The directors had hoped for a more favorable financial showing, but somewhat slightly diminished receipts from certain sources were not fully offset by an increase from others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."