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they see awakened to the subject, that a sufficient surplus 

 may be reckoned upon, to meet the extra expenses. 



But even if this expectation should be disappointed, by 

 executing the plan in the method which the Subcommittee 

 would recommend, no risk of loss need be incurred. They 

 would propose, if a deficiency of Subscriptions should appear, 

 to defer the contracts for the internal finishing of part of the 

 Museum, and for the interior finishing of part of the upper 

 story in front; by which means the estimate would be con- 

 siderably diminished. 



The Subcommittee are fully sensible of the inconvenience 

 which would result from these retrenchments. It would be 

 a matter of deep regret to them, if the want of funds should 

 unfortunately compel them to leave the Museum incomplete, 

 and the adjoining ground unimproved ; but they also feel 

 that it would be highly injurious to the interests and prospects 

 of the Institution, either to contract the present design, or to 

 delay its execution. They are of opinion, that it would be 

 much more detrimental to the objects of the Society, per- 

 manently to narrow the foundations of the Building, than to 

 leave some of the apartments, for the present, unfinished. 

 But they confidently hope to be spared even this mortifica- 

 tion, and to find the precautions, which they think it ex- 

 pedient to keep in view, rendered unnecessary, by the 

 support which is still to be expected, and which is due from 

 the County of York, to such an Institution as a Yorkshire 

 Museum. 



JuLT 30th, 1827. 



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