700 REPORTS OP THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 



room, has entailed an expense of $372, which should properly, perhaps, be charged 

 to the library fund. It has, however, been comprised in the following statement of 

 expenditures : 



The total amount expended on the building, and on the fencing of the 

 lot, including superintendence and all incidental expenses connected 

 therewith, up to 1st December, 1847, was, as then stated $25,002 67 



The amount expended on the building and its appurtenances, from the 

 1st of December, 1847, to the 31st of December, 1848, was, as stated 

 in the last annual report 53,934 74 



Total expended on the building, &c, up to the 31st December, 1848 78,937 41 



The expenditures on the building and its appurtenances during the year 

 1849 have been as follows : 



Paid Mr. Cameron, contractor for the building $50,300 00 



Paid Mr. Eenwick, architect, as salary 



Paid Mr. Eenwick for traveling expenses 



Paid Mr. Eenwick for expenses of architect's office, includ- 

 ing incidental expenses of the same, stationery, pay of 



draughtsman, &c. 



Paid Mr. Brown, as superintendent, one year's salary 



Paid Messrs. Culver & Co. for three furnaces 



Paid Mr. Barrows for one furnace 



Paid Mr. Cassiday for three scrapers 



Paid Mr. Beckert for recoloring east wing 



Paid Mr. Buckingham for plumbing 



For additional furniture of library $60 47 



" " " 50 75 



" " " 25 00 



" " " 176 25 



" « " 319 62 



Paid also for temporary library furniture 372 00 



1,004 09 



Paid Mr. Cameron for extra work on building 21 50 



" " » 31 62 



53 12 



Paid Mr. Cameron for coal 39 72 



For improvement of grounds — 



Mr. Douglass for trees, &c 520 00 



Mr. S. Bryan for plank road 62 00 



Mr. Cameron for road making $45 43 



" " " 56 12 



101 55 



683 55 



Paid for hack-hire for Building Committee 17 50 



5,383 76 $78,937 41 



Amount expended on the building and its appurtenances up to the 31st 



December, 1848 $78,937 41 



Amount expended on the same during the year 1849 56,383 76 



Total amount expended on the same up to the end of the year 1849 135,321 17 



At the annual meeting in December, 1847, it was resolved 

 that there should be considered applicable to the building 

 and grounds (including preceding expenditures) up to the 

 19th day of March, 1848, the sum of $42,000 00 



And for the year ending March 19, 1849, the further sum of 52,000 00 



And for the year ending March 19, 1850, the further sum of 52,000 00 



$146,000 00 



But, as shown above, the total expenditures to the end of 1849 has been 135,321 17 



Leaving, of the building fund, a balance applicable between the 1st of 



January and 19th of March, 1850, of 10,678 83 



The furnaces that have been set up in the building for heating the rooms have not 



