MIN/1989/07
Minute: publication of the accounts in full
- Kind:
- Minutes
- Date:
- 19 July 1989
- Origin:
- Stewardship, North House
- Access:
- Open.
The treasurer's proposal, the objection that nobody would read them, and the reply that has been quoted ever since.
MINUTE OF THE STEWARDSHIP MIN/1989/07
Present: seven stewards, the archivist, the treasurer.
3. THE ACCOUNTS. The treasurer proposed that the consolidated accounts
of the houses be printed in the annual report in full, in place of
the summary, together with any gift or legacy declined during the
year and the conditions attached to it.
It was said against the proposal that the report would grow by nine
pages and that the membership would not read them.
The treasurer replied that the question is not whether they are
read but whether they could be, and that a summary is a decision
about what other people need to know, taken by the person who
already knows it.
Agreed, one abstention. The abstention was on the ground of the
printing cost and is recorded as such.
4. It was noted that two legacies declined in 1986 and 1987 had not
been reported to the membership at the time. Both were declined
correctly. Both are to appear in the 1989 report with their
conditions, out of their year, and marked as late.
Reconciled with the Common Record
The accounts have been printed in full every year since. The 1986 and 1987 legacies appear at the foot of the 1989 accounts, marked late.
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