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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 5, 1876

FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE VERMONT TRACT AND MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

By A. S. Hutchins; Thos. H. Purdon

This meeting was held on the camp-ground at Milton, Aug. 20, 1876. After the usual opening exercises, the report of the last annual meeting was read and accepted. The report of labor for the past year was as follows:—

REPORT OF LABOR FOR 1875-6.

District	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	No. 6	Total
Membership	78	60	34	48	25	17	252
No. Letters written	371	17	15	35	68	61	615
Families visited	101	12	43	36	29	36	293
New subscribers	—	86	17	54	4	22	301
Books loaned	116	8	—	—	7	3	18
Periodicals distributed	816	664	420	859	222	616	3,098
Tracts and pamphlets—pages	20,382	30,168	9,315	16,812	14,369	41,428	183,096
Prophetic Charts	67	—	—	9	1	—	96
Present Fruit Cards	—	—	—	15	8	22	40

MONEYS RECEIVED.

District	No. 1	No. 2	No. 3	No. 4	No. 5	No. 6	Total
Donations	$71 85	$14 65	$11 48	$31 11	$35 75	$8 63	$161 92
Book sales	1 62	1 10	1 48	2 54	1 12	2 42	189 02
Periodicals	121 80	83 50	7 50	48 00	12 61	25 00	225 69
Membership	8 90	5 50	—	—	—	—	45 50
Poor Fund	12 40	8 50	—	10 00	17 00	—	18 28
School Fund	20 45	5 00	—	10 00	13 00	20 00	88 00
Book Fund	4 45	30 00	—	—	—	—	38 00
Pacific Mission	10 00	—	—	—	—	—	10 00

TREASURER’S REPORT.

Received during the year........$890 49 Paid out........................790 10 Balance on hand...............$100 39

Brief remarks were made by Eld. White and others on the value of our publications.

The Committee on Nominations presented the names of the following persons, who were elected to their respective offices:—President, Eld. A. S. Hutchins; Vice-President, C. R. Austin; Treasurer, S. R. N. Barrows; Secretary, Thos. H. Purdon; Directors, Dist. No. 1, C. P. Whitford; No. 2, C. F. Worthen; No. 3, F. T. Wales; No. 4, R. F. Barton; No. 5, Daniel Wilcox; No. 6, L. G. Kidder.

A. S. HUTCHINS, Pres.

THOS. H. PURDON, Sec.