This is old news. But the report has been delayed in order that the treasurer might keep his books open till the very last offering pledged to us in aid of the work for that year could be collected, and thus, as much as possible be paid of the salaries which remained unpaid at the end of the year. We had no deficit. The mission does not run in debt. It never uses the resources of a new year to pay the arrears of the one preceding. Consequently there was only one thing to do when it became apparent that our resources would not be equal to our needs, viz., to authorize our workers to cease work and close the schools, and to say that should they continue in the work, we could promise them only this, that we would do for them all that was possible to us. The final result was that our workers--steadfast and faithful--after having given their usual donations, squared accounts in January by extra gifts amounting to $374.90. And while we are on this matter of the finances, we will give an abstract of the treasurer's final statement respecting current expenses in our general work: I. RESOURCES: On hand last Report $49.95 Appropriation American Missionary Association 7,499.90 Receipts at Treasury California Chinese Mission 4,973.80 Transferred from Permanent Prop. Account 24.55 Sale of Tracts and Books 4.40 II. DISBURSEMENTS: Salaries of Superintendent, Teachers and Helpers $8,480.25 Rents of Mission Houses 3,013.85 Incidental Expenses 1,058.50 -------- -------- $12,552.60 $12,552.60 In addition to this, the work for Chinese mothers and children cost us $557.70, a little less than one-half of what we could have used with rigid economy and good results. The statistics of the work show twenty-one missions in which schools have been maintained, as follows: Fourteen during the entire year, except as recesses were taken at Chinese and American holidays; four with but one month's vacation; two during the four months that the fruit men have comparative leisure, and one--that at Watsonville--a new mission which commenced work four months before the fiscal year closed. The total number of months of labor was 431.