REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 9 



to market, the payment for which, however, will become a 

 serious problem for the Board during the next ten years. 



The improvements now completed or contemplated by 

 the city, and which must be paid for during the year 1905, 

 are as follows : 



Shaw Avenue Sewer (now due) $ 6,720 99 



Manchester Avenue Joint District Sewer (completed) . . 45,000 00 



Improvement of McRee Avenue (400 feet) 2,500 00 



Improvement of Grand Avenue (476 feet) 2,750 00 



Improvement of Vandeventer Avenue (471 feet) .... 2,50000 



Improvement of Shaw Avenue (2,812 feet) 12,500 00 



Total $71,970 99 



As the Board of Trustees have no power to borrow 

 money, these improvements, if paid for in full, will have 

 to be met by the balance of our savings unexpended and 

 any savings we may make on the year's income, and by sale 



of residence property . 



Durino- the year we invested the balance of the fund re- 

 ceived from the sale of the property at the corner of Main 

 and Vine streets, in a new building at No. 218-20-22 

 Chestnut street at a cost of $27,974.09 which we have 

 leased for a long term at a good rental. 



Necessary repairs have been made to the properties of 

 the Board and all buildings are in reasonably good 



condition. 



No permanent improvements have been made at the 



Garden outside of extensive planting in the N. American 



Synopsis, but the usual and necessary repairs to plant 



houses and buildings have been made. 



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The annual bequests made in Mr. Sb 

 carried out at an expenditure of $2,98 



A large number of additions have 

 Library and Herbarium by purchase and gift during the 

 past year, and the following amounts have been credited 

 to Stock Account : 



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