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luding the repairs to be done by the Society, costs of 

 , and any structural or other improvements or ornaments 

 Tvhich the Committee may think fit, which allowance shall from 

 time to time proceed and be made upon a fair and reasonable 

 basis, and so as to keep and maintain the said gardens and all 

 the buildings, improvements, and ornaments upon and belonging 

 thereto in thoroughly good order and condition. Jindly. There 2. In pay- 

 shall be then retained by the Society out of such receipts, the ^^ent^of 

 amount which may be from time to time payable by the Society ^^ Dgben- 

 in respect of interest, not exceeding T) per cent., on the sum of tmes. 

 i'40,000 which they have borrowed on debentures as aforesaid, or 

 on BO much of the said sum of £40,000, as may remain unpaid or 

 undischarged ; and, 3rdly. There shall then be paid by the 3. in p^ay- 

 Society to the said Commissioners as rent, the yearly sum of™^^*° 

 £2,145, if the receipts shall be adequate for such payment after 

 retaining to the Society the sums authorised to be retained by 

 them under the 1st and 2nd heads of the present clause, but 

 otherwise such a sum only as shall be equal from year to year to 

 the residue of the receipts over and above the sums so in pre- 

 cedence. And if there shall remain any surplus over and above 4- Dinaion 

 the said several payments hereinbefore directed to be made or °^^^^^ ^'^■ 

 retained out of the " Receipts from the Gardens," there shall be 

 paid to the Commissioners for their own use and as additional 

 rent yearly, a sum equal to half such surplus. 



15. For the purpose of regulating t' 

 by the Society in each year for expenses, i 

 appointed annually, which Committee shall c 

 three of whom shall be appointed by the Con 

 three by the Society, and any three of such Committee shall form 

 a quorum, so as one at least shall be a person appointed by the 

 Commissioners, and one a person appointed by the Society. 

 Seven days' notice of every meeting of the Committee shall be 

 given in writing to each member of the Committee by a letter to 

 be sent by the post. As vacancies may occur in each year by 

 death, incapacity, or resignation, such vacancies may be filled up 

 respectively by the Commissioners or the Society according as the 

 original appointments were made by them respectively. 



16 The Committee shall from time to time select one of those 

 Committee men who have been appointed by the Commissioners 

 as Chairman of such Committee, which Chairman shall have the 

 power of voting on all occasions equally with the other committee 

 men for the time being, acting; and such Chairman, m case of 



amount to be retained Expenses 

 I Committee shall be Coii"ni e. 



