Bolivar, December 3, 1866
To the Officers and Members of the Monumental Society of Hardeman county.
I have the honor to submit to you the following Report of the Executive committee of the tournament held here on the 12th and 13th of October last, for the Benefit of your honorable and most Praise Worthy Society;

Statement
Total receipts ……………………………………………… $1,346.30
Total Expenditures – prizes, labor, printing, etc. … $$832.09
Net Proceeds ………………………………………………… $514.21

Which amount has been placed in the hands of your secretary, A. T. MCNEAL.

In behalf of the patrons and officers of the late tournament, I bid you God speed in your noble work, and hope that your self-imposed task – that of erecting a fade less tribute to the lamented dead – will be crowned with a success commensurate with its sanctity, at no distant day.
Respectfully,
M. R. PARRISH
Chairman Executive Committee

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 08 Dec. 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.