From the financial statement for 1883
Given as the
hierarchıs salary 5,000.00 rubles, which makes 796 3/4 pounds sterling:
to
the Archpriest Vladimir Vechtomov 3,148 rubles, or two thousand and four
hundred and twenty-three dollars and ninety-six cents; as his salary 2,548
rubles or $1.961.96, and housing allowance, 600.00 rubles, or $462.90.
to
the Priest, as his salary and housing allowance, 2,754.00 rubles, or $2,120.50.
to
the Deacon John Sobolev, as his salary and housing allowance, 1,576 rubles, or
one thousand two hundred thirteen dollars and fifty-two cents.
as
subdeaconıs salary and housing allowance, to the Singer Michael Mstislavsky,
1,280 rubles, or nine hundred eighty-five dollars and sixty cents.
as
subdeaconıs salary and housing allowance, to the Singer John Rayndl, 1,280
rubles, or nine hundred eighty-five dollars and sixty cents. The remaining 12
dollars, a result of Rayndl's illness, was paid to the Alaska Trade Company to
pay off the general debt for the church buildings they constructed in Alaska, a
total of 1280 rubles, or nine hundred eighty-five dollars and sixty cents.
as
readerıs salary and housing allowance, to the Singer Nicephorus Ptitsyn 1,084
rubles, or eight hundred thirty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents.
as
readerıs salary and housing allowance, to the Deacon Basil Kashevarov, who is
under suspension, $468.30 To the reader John Dabovich, hired after the
departure of B. Kashevarov to perform the duties of church reader with a salary
of $20 a month, $100; the total given was 727 rubles and 70 kopeks, or $568.30.
Paid to the director
of Alaska Trade Company Mr. Gustav Neubaum for the construction of a church
rectory in Alaska, according to the contract concluded between Bishop Nestor
and G. Neubaum, seven thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars and
sixty-five cents.
Issued to the General
Consulate in S. Francisco for transpotation of the suspended Deacon Basil
Kashevarov with his family to Vladivostok one thousand sixty-eight dollars and
seventy-five cents.
For baking of
prosphori in S. Francisco $120; in Sitka $36, and in Kenai $36; total one
hundred and ninety-two dollars.
Thirty-one dollars was
spent or two round trips for an archpriest and a reader from San Francisco to
Sacramento to prepare the criminal Simon Raten for his death.
For the coffin made
for burial of the body of Bishop Nestor who fell asleep in the Lord, $15; and
for a cast iron stove for Kenai, $22.60; total: thirty-seven dollars and sixty
cents.