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SEVENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
OF
THE NECROPOLIS, OR LOW HILL CEMETERY

TUESDAY, JANUARY 14TH, 1896.
 
     The Committee, in their Statement of the affairs of the NECROPOLIS for the past year, report that there is a balance of £195 19s 5d in the Treasurer's hands available for division, and annex his Statement of Accounts.
     At the Seventy-first Annual Meeting of the Proprietors of the Necropolis, Low Hill, held on Tuesday, the 14th January, 1896, William King, Esq, in the Chair.
     The Report from the Registrar and Treasurer's Statement of Accounts for the past year were read.
Resolved -
     1 - That the Treasurer's Statement of Accounts for 1895 be adopted, and that it be printed and circulated amongst the Proprietors.
     2 - That a dividend of 5s per Share, free of Income Tax, be paid to the Proprietors for the year 1895, and that it be payable on and after Friday, 25th January, 1896, at the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.
     3 - That the REv Charles Green be re-appointed Chaplain.
     4 - That Mr Theo Van Gelder be re-appointed Registrar.
     5 - That Mr Thomas Hopkins be re-appointed Sexton.
     6 - The following Honorary Officers were elected for the ensuing year: - Chairman, William King, Esq. Auditors, W H Priestley, Esq and Wm Hope, Esq. Treasurer, H J Houghton, Esq.
     7 - That the following gentlemen compose the Committee for the current year, viz : -
Bulley, Hy Hope, William Robinson, J J
Bromfield, Samuel Houghton, H J Sumner, John
Collins, G L Johnson, C F Van Gelder, Theo
Cooper, Thomas King, William Williams, Roderick
Eccles, E S Kirkus, R W Wilkinson, W C
Gordon, J H Priestley, W H  
                                                                                                           WILLIAM KING,
                                                                                                                                Chairman.
 

STATEMENT OF AFFAIRS
THE TRUSTEES OF THE LIVERPOOL NECROPOLIS, OR LOW HILL CEMETERY,
In Account with H J HOUGHTON, ESQ, Treasurer
31st December, 1895.

  Dr.                                                                                                                                                                            Cr.

1895

     £       s     d
Jan 20 To Dividend A/c. Dividends for the year 1894  175     0     0
Dec 31  ''    Registrar's Salary    50     0     0
   ''    Chaplain's Salary    33   15     0
   ''    Sexton's Salary  104     0     0
   ''         Do      Donation for 1894      5      5     0
   ''    Workmen's Wages   212    11    4
   ''    Gravestones, Bricks, Mortar, &c    84      6     2
   ''    Rates and Taxes    80      5   10
   ''    Coal, Gas and Insurance    18    18     7
   ''    Repairs, Renovating, &c     2       6     6
   ''    Printing, Postages and Petty Expenses    18      5     1
   ''    Hire of Room      1      5     0
   ''    Law charges       3      3     0
   ''    Bank Commission      0     10    6 
   ''    Balance carried down   195    19    5
    £985    11    5
1895       £       s     d
Jan 1 By Balance from last A/c    156    15    4
Jan 1  ''    Dividend A/c      44    14    0
      £       s     d  
Dec 31  ''    Receipts for Graves and Vaults  143     0     0  
   ''           ''          ''    Stones       123     4     0  
   ''           ''          ''    Lettering    70    17    8  
   ''           ''          ''    Fees  404    17    6  
       741   19    2
   ''    Dividends on £694    10 6  Consols      18     9    0
   ''    Dividends on £682     0  0 Liverpool    
 

Corporation Stock

       23     0    0
   ''   Bank Interest         0    13  11
       
      £985    11   5
1896      

Jan 1

 By Balance brought down     195    19    5

 
Audited and found correct,
                                W HOPE                                                                                       LIVERPOOL, 4th January, 1896
                                W H PRIESTLEY                                                                                       H J HOUGHTON, Treasurer