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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 



Expenditure, 



1850-51. 



Interest on loan notes, &c 



Bents, rates, taxes, &c., Regent-street and 



Chiswick 



Repairs, furniture, &c., Regent-street . . 

 Housekeeping Expenses ditto 

 Salaries, collector's poundage, &c. 



Cost of Quarterly Journal 



Cost of Transactions and Fruit Catalogues . 



Library charges . 



Printing, stationery, &c 



Foreign missions and imports 



Expenses of meetings, postage, carriage, &c. 



Garden labour 



Implements, mats, seeds, &c 



Tan, dung, &c 



Coals and coke for garden 



Miscellaneous expenses at garden .... 



Garden repairs 



Distribution expenses 



Exhibition expenses, 1848 



Cost of medals awarded 



New works at garden 



Law expenses, 1846 to 1849 



Of these charges 5 only are in excess of the previous year, 

 namely : 1. New works, already reported on. 2. Cost of medals, 

 which exceeds that of last year by the sum of 90/. 3*. 3. 

 Manure, &c.,in which an increased expenditure of 21/. 15*. 10c?. 

 was indispensable. 4. Garden labour, an apparent increase of 

 67/. 4*. Qd., nearly accounted for by the Garden clerk's wages, 

 amounting to 59/. 16*., having been transferred to this head 

 from that of Salaries, where it formerly stood ; and 5. Foreign 

 imports, which have cost 15/. Qs, 2d. more than in the last year, 

 on account of the Council's subscription of 20/. to the Scotch 

 Expedition to Oregon. 



On the other hand, salaries are reduced by 72/. 10*. Ad. ; the 

 cost of the Journal by 67/. 8*. 2d. ; expense of meetings by 

 66/. 0*. Id. ; miscellaneous Garden expenses by 43/. 9*. 9(/. ; 

 and the cost of distribution by 43/. 18*. Id. 



With respect to the financial result of the Exhibitions in the 

 Garden, the Council have to report that the receipts of 1850 fell 

 short of those of 1849 by the sum of 138/. 3s., as follows : — 



