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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 11, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 14.

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California Tents.

TENT No. 1 will be pitched in San Francisco for meetings this week, in the Mission Dolores. Meetings will commence on Friday evening.
Elders Loughborough and Healey go with this tent.
Tent No. 2 will soon be erected in Lemore, Tulare county. Brethren Wood and Rice go with tent No. 2.
Tent No 3 will be erected this week in Red Bluff, and meetings will commence on Friday evening. Brethren Israel and Stephens will use this tent.
CAL. CONF. COMMITTEE.

Meeting of the P. S. D. A. Publishing Association.

According to notice given in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, the third annual meeting of the Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association was held April 3, 1878. Meeting opened with prayer.
Upon calling the roll it was ascertained that a large majority of the stock was represented; 929 by proxy, and 636 in person, being more than two-thirds of the subscribed stock.
Minutes of the previous meeting read and accepted.
On motion, the chair appointed E. R. Gillett, Geo. Manuel and J. I. Tay as committee to nominate a board of five directors for the coming year.
The report of the financial workings of the Association from March 30, 1877, to March 28, 1878, was read and accepted as follows:—

TREASURER'S REPORT.

RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand March 30, 1877 ................. $777 50 Rec'd on acct's & deposits 96,059 82 " SIGNS OF THE TIMES 12,319 90 " shares in P S D A P A 2,232 " Cal Conf. Fund ... 4,717 36 " sales of books .... 3,941 53 " " paper .... 2,051 25 " job printing .. 7,569 35 " donations to SIGNS 158 80 " Cal T & M Society 3,393 92 " exchange ....... 32 89 " incidentals ...... 201 43 " fuel acc't ...... 97 38—132.875 63 -------------------------- $133.653 13
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid out on acct & dept's 96,844 32 " for paper & freight 10,247 70 " " books & freight 3,668 55 " Office labor ...... 10,788 68 " imp'mts on r estate 1,076 94 " type and material 1,176 12 " SIGNS OF THE TIMES 359 " incidentals ...... 2,607 41 " fuel acc't ...... 471 86 " exchange ....... 55 82 " Cal Conf Fund .. 3,579 48 " Cal T & M Society 2,683 73 Cash to bal March. 28, 1878 93 52—133,653 13
GEO. S. MANUEL, Treasurer.
Total value of the Association ................ 46,051 97 Due Ass'n on book acc't .. 7,196 79 Cash on hand ... 93 52— 53,342 28 Ass'n owes on book acct and notes 17,573 77 Assets after the debts are paid ... $35,768 51
I hereby certify that I have carefully examined the books and accounts of the P. S. D. A. P. Association, and find them correctly kept, and further, that the above report of the treasurer shows a correct statement of the financial condition of the Association.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Auditor.
We the committee on nominations would submit the following names for directors for the coming year, James White, J. N. Loughborough, John Morrison, W. N. Glenn, J. E. White.
E. R. GILLETT, Chairman.
Upon counting the ballots, the above named persons were found to be elected without a dissenting vote.
Some remarks were then made in regard to the satisfactory workings of the institution during the past year, after which the meeting adjourned.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, President. J. E. WHITE, Secretary.