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would retain Xivon ; and tlie Government sent the api^lioation 

 forward to India for favourable consideration, A loni^ interval 

 passed with no reply, and the Society becoming very insistent, 

 the Governor took it upon himself 13th July, 1866, to o-rant the sum 

 asked for with effect from May 1st, 1866, subject to approval, only 

 to fiiul himself overruled from Simla by an order which he received 

 the very next day. Yet somehow the Society did get this grant of 

 $50 and in the same year, it being the first direct payment on the 

 part of Governauent to the Gardens (vide Appendix 5). 



There is a statement appended to the rejDort of the Society for 

 1866 which is not rej^roduced here, wherein the names of the< 

 members of the Society are given and the amounts of their dona- 

 tions; we learn from it that 133 had joined, paying their $25 en- 

 trance fee and some of them giving another $25 later. We know 

 that 77 of these were original members or members who had joined 

 in the first year, and that 9 new members were obtained in the first 

 half of the second year. If we distribute the balance of 47 over the 

 remaining five and a half years, say thus, 5 for a half year, 8, 8, 8, 

 9, and 9 ; and collect together the other declared sources of inco-me, 

 assuming this oidy that the first Fete brought in $10(}(), we find 

 tliat the Society obtained funds as follows : — 



The increasing figures were e^•idently held by the Committee as 

 justifying larger expenditure: they considered that they were begin- 

 ning to get a return on their outlay, and would on a yet larger 

 outlay. The Governor, moreover, in his Progress Pieport (dated 

 186 < ) remarked the taste in which the Society's land had been laid 

 out. Witli a great faith in their mission, they proceeded to stabilise 

 the undertaking; they raised Mr. Niven's pay again to retain his 

 services (Appendix 5) ; they obtained from Government a grant in 

 perpetuo of the land§ which they had been holding by its good- 

 will, so long as it should be used for public ]nirposes; and to provide 

 a site for a house for their Superintendent, and for other purposes thev 

 bought on March 9th, 1866, upwards of twenty-five acres of landf of 

 the old Napier estate from Adam Wilson, who had bought it from 

 Wliampoa, — the land X2 on the ]dan. This exhausted their funds, 

 leaving nothing for building: but they raised $1500 by a mortgage 

 (Appendix 5), . 



* includes $250 from Government i.e. $50 p,m May to September. 

 § 55 acres 3 roods and 28 poles. 

 t 24 acres 1 rood and 19 poles. 



