30th, 6,576.48 AVERY FUND.—Amount received from Executor 408.92 * * * * * The receipts of Berea College, Hampton N. and A. Institute, and Atlanta University, are added below, as presenting at one view the contributions of the same constituency for the general work in which the Association is engaged. Receipts of the A. M. A. $187,480.02 Hampton N. & A. Inst. 57,014.73 Atlanta University, State Appropriation 8,000.00 Berea College 37,607.06 —————————————$290,101.81 * * * * * REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND ENLARGEMENT. Your Committee on Finance and Enlargement, to whom was referred the financial exhibit of the Association for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1880, as presented by the Treasurer, beg leave to report that they have examined the accounts and found them duly audited. These accounts include a minute and detailed statement of receipts and expenditures, a list of the endowments, and also a full account of the property owned by the Association, and were accompanied by the account books of the Treasurer. We are unanimous in vouching for the faithfulness and economy which characterize all branches of the financial administration. Nor can we refrain from a word of most emphatic commendation of the thorough explicitness of the Association’s financial statement. But passing from this to the substance of the Report, we notice three points suggested by it which seem to call for special mention. In the first place, it is ground for gratitude and thanksgiving that the year closes without leaving us burdened with a debt. On the contrary, there is a balance in the treasury of nearly eight hundred dollars. Not a very large surplus, surely, but the fact that the year’s work has been done and left us anything besides a disheartening deficiency, is itself occasion for thankfulness and cheer.