Transcribed from the 1843 D. Cussons edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org THE FIRST REPORT OF THE HORNCASTLE TEETOTAL SOCIETY ESTABLISHED, 1836. * * * * * HORNCASTLE: Printed by D. Cussons, Market-place. 1843. ONE PENNY. * * * * * _Statement of Accounts from February_ 1842 _to February_ 1843. RECEIVED. PAID. £ s. d. £ s. d. To Balance in Treasurer’s hands 3 7 8 By Expences of Tea Meeting 18 15 1½ To Proceeds of Tea Meeting 16 17 0 By Advocates’ Salaries and 10 8 0 Expences To Amount of Collection 0 18 2 By Rent of School Room 1 5 0 To Subscriptions and Donations 9 1 4 By Printing and Postage 1 1 5 To Proceeds from Mr. Grubb’s Lecture 2 3 6 By Town Crier 0 18 6 To Balance due to the Treasurer 2 4 9½ By Candles 0 16 5 By Rent of Committee Room 1 8 0 £34 12 5½ £34 13 5½ REPORT. THE Committer of the Horncastle Tee-total Society have great pleasure in bringing before the public their first printed Report, and are grateful to acknowledge the success which has attended their labours, in connexion with other friends of the Temperance cause; and notwithstanding the opposition they have had to contend with, the cause is still progressing in numbers, and exercising a mighty influence on the social and domestic habits of the community at large.