OF THE COMMITTEE CHOSEN TO INVESTIGATE THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE REVIEW OFFICE.
We having been chosen by the Conference held in Battle Creek, Nov. 16th, to investigate the financial condition of the REVIEW OFFICE, report as follows:—
1. Nearly $700, were donated by the Church, and paid out to purchase press, type, and other printing materials.
2. As the business in the Office has increased by the publication of Books, &c., Bro. White has been under the necessity of adding to the Office, in type and other material, $569,39. To purchase this material, and to publish Books, he has borrowed considerable sums of money of different Brn. a part only of which he has been able to pay, leaving debts still on his hands.
3. The wear and tear of type and other material, we estimate at $257,89, which taken from $569,39, (the amount added to the Office by Bro. White,) leaves $311,89, due Bro. White.
Having an opportunity of more fully understanding the cost of publishing the REVIEW, we are fully satisfied with Bro. White's former estimate of cost. It is true that some of the help in the Office, a portion of the time, did not receive full pay; but this would no more than balance Bro. White's extra expenses in Rochester.
At present we know of no good reason why those who labor in the Office, should not receive a reasonable compensation; but at present the Editor does not ask for his services more than one half what he can get elsewhere. The cost of the REVIEW will therefore be about the same here that it has been in Rochester.
A report of the Book department, &c., will be given hereafter.
HENRY LYON,
DAVID HEWITT,
WM. M. SMITH, } Committee of Investigation.