7. INDIA: (1.) North India: For the work, to be re-distributed by the Finance Committee and Bishop Thoburn.. For purchase of property in Agra.. $70,500 For salary of missionary at home... 1,200 (2.) South India: To be re-distributed by the Finance Committee and Bishop Thoburn..... 21,000 (3.) Bengal: To be re-distributed by the Finance Committee and Bishop Thoburn....... 18,300 For special evangelistic work, at the disposal of Bishop 2,000 $114,000 11. MEXICO: For the work, to be re-distributed by the Mission, with the approval of Bishop Ninde For debt on the church in Mexico.. $50,703 $58,203 To be divided between Mississippi and Upper Mississippi in the proportion of last year's appropriations. $459,648 Contingent Appropriations. The General Committee, greatly regretting its inability to make the following appropriations which are very urgently needed, orders them to be placed in the list of appropriations, as contingent on special contributions for the purposes named, and earnestly calls the attention of our wealthy and benevolent people to these objects, in hope that they may be provided for by generous special gifts, without diminishing the regular contributions of the donors: * Expenditures from contingent fund are made only for missions, never for administration (Art. XI, Constitution). The incidental fund of last year was expended as follows, namely Interest and annuities, $16,079 91; printing and periodicals, $1,306 46: Bishops' traveling expenses to missions, 84,249 54; return expenses of missionaries and traveling expenses, visiting Conferences, conventions, etc., $3,628 43; taxes and legal expenses, $759 11: postage, telegrams, gas, express charges, repairs, and sundries, $4,529 84; Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, $50; outgoing of missionaries, ordered by the Board, $291 13; missionaries returned, superannuated, widows of, etc., $1,269 25; repairs, etc., to mission property ordered by the Board, $2,059 60; general missionary committee expenses, 82,756 94; office fixtures, $2,833 59; exchange, $4,000; total, 843,813 80. Office expenses are for salaries, traveling expenses of the secretaries, stationery, etc., of the office. |