4 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF head of expenditure may in future be reduced within narrower limits, and that in consequence, the issue of printed volumes may hereafter be more numerous. Of the TRANSCRIPTS made during the last year, the chief have been selections from the singularly interesting and valuable REGISTERS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ABERDEEN,-unquestionably at once more ancient and more complete than those of any other Burgh in Scotland. Nearly one hundred pounds have been altogether debursed on this account. About half that sum has been paid during the year for copies of other historical, genealogical, and ecclesiastical records. Nearly seventy pounds have been paid for ENGRAVINGS, and other Illustrations of Works delivered to Members during the year, or which are now in preparation. It was stated at the last General Meeting, that the PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB, the Right Honourable the EARL OF ABERDEEN, had announced his intention of presenting to the Members a volume printed and edited at his Lordship's charge; and this work, being COLLECTIONS FOR A HISTORY OF THE SHIRES OF ABERDeen AND BANFF, is now in the press under the superintendence of Mr. JOSEPH ROBERTSON. It will be illustrated by a large and valuable MAP OF THE Counties of ABERDEEN, BANFF, AND THE MEARNS, engraved from the original drawings of ROBERT GORDON OF STRALOCH, executed about the middle of the seventeenth century. The Council have the farther pleasure of announcing, that Mr. THOMAS CONSTABLE, Printer to Her Majesty the Queen at Edinburgh, has expressed his intention of making a donation to the Members of the Club, of a hitherto inedited LIFE OF FIELD MARSHAL KEITH; and that this volume is now in the press. In addition to the works which will be printed during the year 1843 from the common funds of the Club, the Members will thus receive two volumes executed at the private charge of individuals. Of the various works which the Committee of the Council have had more or less under their consideration, they recommend the following to the attention of their successors in office : I. A volume of Selections from the Ecclesiastical Registers of the Province of Aberdeen and Banff. II. A volume of Selections from the Registers of the Council of the City of Aberdeen. III. Patrick Gordon's "Abridgement of Britaine's Distemper from 1638 to 1649." IV. A Volume of Genealogical Collections. V. The first volume of an annotated and illustrated edition of Spalding's History of The Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland,-with a new collation of the text with the best MSS. extant. THE SPALDING Club. VI. The Breviary of Aberdeen. 5 VII. Archdeacon Barbour's Metrical History of The Bruce, with notes, and a new collation of the text with a manuscript of the fifteenth century hitherto inedited. VIII. The Missal of Arbuthnott. IX. A collection of the Ballads and Songs of the North-Eastern Counties of Scotland. X. Passages from "A Brieffe Narration of the Services done to Three Noble Ladyes by Gilbert Blakhal priest of the Scots Mission, in France, in the Low Countries, and in Scotland." 1630-1650. The Council, in conclusion, have to repeat their sense of the services which the Club has continued to receive from its Local Secretaries. ALEX. THOMSON, Chairman. WE, the Auditors appointed to examine the accounts of THE SPALDING CLUB, report, that the Treasurers have exhibited to us a particular account of their intromissions with the funds of the Club from the 1st December, 1841, to the 1st December, 1842; that we have examined the said account and relative vouchers, and find the same correct; and that the following is an accurate Abstract of the Receipt and Expenditure during the above period :— Abstract of the Receipt and Expenditure of THE SPALDING CLUB, from 1st December, 1841, to 1st December, 1842. THE RECEIPT. Balance of last year's Account, from the 21st December, 1840, to the 1st Received balance of Subscriptions of Members due 1st January, 1840, Paid for Transcripts for the Second Volume of the Club's Miscellany, and for Paid to Account of Editing the Chartulary of Aberdeen, Paid for Editing Gordon's Memoirs of Scots Affairs, Paid to Account of Editing the Second Volume of the Club's Miscellany, Paid for Binding Gordon's Description of Aberdeen, Paid for Miscellaneous Binding, £142 2 10 Paid for Lithographing Fac-Similes for the Second Volume of the Club's Miscellany, Paid for Engraving Plates for Gordon's Description of Aberdeen. Paid for a Wood-Engraving for the Second Volume of the Club's Miscellany, Paid for Lithographing Fac-Simile for Patrick Gordon's Abridgement of Britaine's Distemper, Paid for Paper to Transcribers, Paid for Printing Gordon's Description of Aberdeen, Paid for Printing the Third Volume of Gordon's Memoirs of Scots Affairs, Paid for Delivering the Club's Publications and Collecting Subscriptions, Carry forward, Paid Mr. John Davidson, for Transcribing and Collating Manuscripts, addressing Volumes, and general business connected with the Club, 26 0 Paid for Postages and Parcels, 5 10 Paid for Travelling Expenses to Slaines, Parkhill, Pittodrie, and Edinburgh, 13 17 5 6 1 1060 Balance in Aberdeen Bank, with Interest, at Treasurers' Credit, on The Treasurers have also exhibited to us the list of arrears of Subscriptions, as at 1st December current, amounting to £35 14s., payment of which they have no doubt they will soon receive. A. BLACKIE. F. FROST. JOHN WEBSTER. ABERDEEN, 14th December, 1842. OF THE SPALDING CLU B. I. The name of the Society shall be "THE SPALDING CLUB, for the printing of the Historical, Ecclesiastical, Genealogical, Topographical, and Literary Remains of the NorthEastern Counties of Scotland." II. The objects of the Club shall be the printing of inedited manuscripts, and the reprinting of works of sufficient rarity and importance to make such reprints desirable. III. The Club shall consist of members being subscribers of One Guinea annually; such subscription to be paid in advance, on or before the first day of January in each year. IV. The management of the affairs of the Club shall be vested in a President, Five VicePresidents, and a Council of Thirty-one members, all to be chosen yearly by the Club at large, at a General Meeting, to be held at Aberdeen, on the twenty-second day of December, or on the Monday following, when the twenty-second of December shall fall upon a Sunday. V. Immediately after the annual meeting, the Council shall, from their own number, elect a Secretary and Treasurer, along with nine other members, who shall form a Committee of the Council, and shall determine on the works to be printed by the Club, and superintend the arrangements necessary to the production thereof. The meetings of the Committee shall be open to all the members of the Club. VI. The accounts of the Receipt and Expenditure of the Club shall be audited annually by three Auditors, to be elected at the General Meeting, from among the Members; and the Report of the Auditors, with an Abstract of the Accounts, shall be printed and circulated among the members. VII. The names of the members proposed to be elected as President, Vice-Presidents, Councillors, and Auditors, shall be transmitted by the proposers to the Secretary, at least one month before the General Meeting. VIII. Members may vote at the General Meeting by proxy; but no member whose subscription is in arrear shall be entitled to vote. IX. In the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents, the Council, at their meetings, shall elect a Chairman, who, beside his own deliberative vote, shall have a casting vote in case of equality of numbers. X.-The funds of the Club shall be expended in the payment of the expenses necessary to he printing of the Works of the Club. XI. After the members of the Club shall have reached the number of five hundred vacancies shall be filled up by the Council, from time to time as they occur. XII. Every member, not in arrear of his annual subscription, shall receive one copy of each work printed by the Club. |