Annual returns.

(d.) Once in every year before the first day of April send to the Registrar a general statement (to be called the annual return) of the receipts and expenditure, funds and effects of the society as audited, which shall show separately the expenditure in respect of the several objects of the society, and shall be made out to the thirty-first December then last inclusively, and a copy of the auditor's report, if any, shall also be sent to the Registrar with such general statement; and such annual return shall state whether the audit has been conducted by a Public Auditor appointed as in this Act provided, and by whom; and if by any person or persons other than the Public Auditor, shall state the name address and calling or profession of each of such persons, and the manner in which and the authority under which they were respectively appointed:^*