Smyrna times., 1875-01-13

are due and are hereby rendered to the retiring
Board of the 5 Smyrna Library for their efficient
services in performing the duties OF their
various offices.
On motion the Stockholders proceeded to
elect officers to serve the ensuing year, with
the following result:
President N. F. Wilds, Vice President,
w. r. Collins, NJ. D.. Corresponding Sec, y,
Jos. II. Hpffecker; Recording Sec'y, W. Il.
Waters; IT,, WIN. A. Cummins; Managers,
Geo. Fl. Raymond. VIM. NJ. Bell, E. j. Colt.
On motion the meeting adjourned:
w. Il. WATERS, Sccretay.
Smyrna, Jan. 7Ih, 1875.
To the Stockholders Of the Smyrna Library AssO.
| citation:
The Board who are now about to retire from
active service, have the sincere pleasure Of cOngrau
ating you upon continuation OF the prosperity Of the
Association. 1t is now entirely cea. OF debt and
has a surplus of available resources which may
safely be estimated at $780, For this result we are
largely indebted to the young ladies and gentlemen
who volunteered most effective aid by late enter.
tainment for the benefit of the Library, which not
only gratlied the audience but added materially to
the funds in the Treasury. The Rev. DR. PhGbus
is also entitled to your thanks Tor his most able and
generous effort in behalf oC the Association During
the year more books have been used than at any
previous period, with one exception, showing the
same active usefulness which it was gratifying to
these favorable facts, it will not be smisS To call
again. attention to the real foundation Of the marked
=, success aud present Independent position OF the
I Association. 1t consists in determined ecOnOms
in expenses and the constant addition of netD books
to the collection Other causes, though useful, are
. casual-these only unlsllng. Expenses mus
Z be rgdly kept down. and fresh books must be pro-
: vded or else, experience has demonstrated, tbt
interest in the Library will fail, and its revenues fal
, below its expenditures. 1t should not be forgotten
e that an addition of ten dollars per annum 4
the expenses for the time during which the AsSocia
n ton has been in existence would have swcpl awal
I much than the present usrPlus OF Tesoui ces
n The annual receipts from dues and fines have
= exceeded Sl45 and cannot be safely relied upon fo
more than S35, sum which is barely sufficient t
meet the present annual expenses viz Rent, 500
J. salary Of Librarian, S25 and gas about $40. Tb
C funds for the purchase Of books must therefore
q come from other sources than the regular revenue
It from the Of the Library. During the past yea
(, it hoped that printed catalogues, which haV
u been long and much needed, could be provided
e but it considered unwse TO apply ut present III
B. the $50 necessary for that purpose when il Wa
d ascertaned that l26 volumes needed rebndin
"a before they could be further used. There wer
is added TO the Library during tho ye 45 volumes,
r which 30 public Documents; Of the remaining
10 6 -four volumns were presented by Rev. DIR. PhGbC
= aud VIM. Megeur Esq, to both OF wsOIn tht thanks
: the Association extended. An examination
the Library IN 1866 showed 69 volumes then miss in
from the shelves. At present there 80 thus M
+ sing, OF which l3 have disappeared during Il
present ytGr, and will probably be returned. us,
those which disappeared in a similar manner in l81
~ and 1879 all have been restored except volume
rr Including these missing Volumes the Library no
II embraces 1880 volumes, of which 2G) are publ
- - documenls-prncipaiy Congressional Globes al
q uther valuable State papers. Ten volumes have br'
- destroyed by and removed from the shelve
VI and 1913 volumes have been LAID aside for rebindn
al As tina question is sometimes asked what kind
OF books the Library Contains, it may be interesting
m give the foil wing classification of them: Works
on Fiction All; Science, 225: Travels l6l Blograp p
IN 1885, History, 228; Poetry, l01 Bellies Lettrcs g.
ms and unclassfed, l25. The amount Oi capital sto
It's is Sl975, and the number of shareholders IL
as The Treasurer reports ioI the year:
he Receipts,
to Commencing Balance, Jan, ls74..... !S
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