Minutes of the regular (monthly), special, and annual meetings of the board; regular (monthly) and annual reports of the general secretary, treasurer, and committees (standing and special); department reports; and miscellaneous correspondence and papers. Arranged chronologically. General format of arrangement for volume 3 and succeeding volumes is as follows: agenda or order of business for the meeting, minutes of regular, special, or annual meetings of the board (the board normally met monthly near the beginning of the month, with frequent special meetings through the month. Annual general meetings were usually held in May or June for the year ending April).
General secretary's report (presented at the regular monthly meeting, covering previous month's business). Treasurers report or financial statement (presented monthly for previous month). Committee reports (standing or departmental, such as finance, boy's department, membership, social, etc. or special committee, such as fund-raising, re-organization, etc.).
Miscellaneous items - following and interspersed among these are letters (relate d to association business), notices, programs or pamphlets of events, memoranda, recommendations, and usually following an election, lists of board members and officers with particulars (annually). Volume 3 opens with a brief history of the Victoria association by general secretary A.J. Brace, which lists all officers from establishment in 1884, and closes with two reports of commissions of the National Association of Y.M.C.A.