Note 2 — Chapter XLI · BLAGOVESTCHENSK.

The amount collected in boxes at church doors in 1876 was 30,100 roubles 37½ kopecks, and from other sources 111,598 roubles 28¼ kopecks, making a total of 141,698 roubles 65¾ kopecks—say £17,712 (reckoning the rouble in this chapter at half-a-crown, its approximate value at the date of the report), besides £1,537 paid to the council by local committees. A comparison is drawn between 1876 and the previous six years, and shows an advance over 1875 of 890 members and £500. The Society has six associations in Siberia, of which Irkutsk has the largest number of members—490, and raises the largest amount of money—£3,470. There is also a list of “special donations” in 1876, which were invested; one donation of 40 roubles, or £5; two of 50 roubles; one of 60; six of 100; one of 200; and one, the largest, of 300 roubles, or £37.