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The Council have Ukewise thought it advisable to make an 

 alteration in the mode of payment for admission, and instead of 

 issuing tickets as heretofore, to receive the money at the gates, 

 whereby much inconvenience to strangers is obviated. 



In accordance with the resolution of the last Annual Meeting, the 

 Council appointed a committee of the Society to make the necessary 

 arrangements for the Horticultural Exhibition to be held in the 

 Society's grounds. The Exhibition took place in August, and it is a 

 subject of regret, that whilst the display was more splendid than on 

 any former occasion, the receipts, owing to the very unfavourable state 

 of the weather, were insufficient to meet the necessary expences 

 thereof. The Council however are in nowise intimidated at the large 

 amount of the deficiency, and feel assured that the Meeting will 

 sanction a similar course to be pursued in the present year, satisfied 

 that the great encouragement given to Horticulture thereby, and the 

 increasing interest shown in the Exhibition, will, under ordinary cir- 

 cumstances, amply repay the Society for any loss they may have 

 sustained. 



In looking at the Treasurer's account which is appended, the 

 Members will perceive how advantageous in all respects are the ar- 

 rangements which the munificent Beckwith Legacy has rendered 

 possible. It has relieved our Mortgages, repurchased our Land, built 

 our Subcurator's house, ornamented our grounds, and allowed of the 

 addition of an able officer to our Museum EstabUshment, and is yet 

 capable of supplying means for the last great operation which the 

 CoimcU reccommend, viz.; the enclosure of St. Leonard's Hospital. 

 May this work be happily completed, and be followed by many stre- 

 nuous efibrts to preserve for the future the memorials of the past; 

 efforts nowhere more likely to be supported, nowhere more likely to 

 yield valuable fruits, than in the City and County of York. 



