Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TOLD BY THE TREASURER. The first entry on the book of the Treasurer is under the date of September twenty-seventh, 1863, and the amount sixty dollars, for initiation fees. Other entries rapidly followed until the fifth of May, 1864, when the receipts totaled, for admissions alone, thirty-eight hundred and seventy dollars. This would indicate that upon the day from which we date our annual meeting, three hundred and eighty-seven members had been enrolled in the Union. In this the first year of our history there was one other very significant entry and that was the sum of six dollars and ninety cents for interest on a U. S. four per cent. bond. The question as to how best to keep the money that had accumulated in the hands of the Treasurer seems to have been answered by the dictates of patriotism and the faith in the cause for which we were contending, and to have been shown by tendering this money, received from the Government, to the Government, to carry on the work that we were doing. This investment was the nucleus of the Permanent Fund that we hold to this day. The first benefit paid from this money was to Mrs. Colonel Casper Trepp on the death of her husband, the Lieutenant Colonel of Berdan's First Regiment of Sharp Shooters. He was killed atMine Run on the thirtieth of November, 1863. The next was to Mrs. McDonough, widow of Captain H. J. McDonough, Seventy-second New York, killed at Locust Grove, November twenty-seventh. The third was to G. G. White whose name does not appear on the roster and may not represent the officer killed, but there is no clue to his identity. From May, 1864, to May, 1865, the receipts were twelve hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. This came from dues, five hundred and fifty; new members, four hundred and eighty; inter...