The Council will see from the foregoing statements that 

 your Committee have unavoidably had to incur considerable 

 expenditure on the first taking over of the Institution in 

 putting it in such a condition as will render it serviceable 

 to the Citizens and creditable to the Corporation. The 

 building being now in a complete state of repair, this 

 expenditure will not occur again, and your Committee are 

 happy to report that, notwithstanding the strain upon their 

 resources the expense of carrying on the Institution for the 

 first year has not exceeded the amount the Corporation are 

 allowed by the before mentioned Act to expend in any year 

 for a Museum. 



Your Committee confidently hope that this amount will 

 in future years under careful management suffice not only 

 to maintain and carry on the Institution in an efficient 

 manner but also to enable advantage to be taken of any 

 opportunities which mav offer of adding to the collections 

 in the Museum and of keeping up the Library connected 

 therewith which your Committee trust may ultimately 

 become a Reference Library worthy of the City. 



Your Committee have had the pleasure of acknowledging 

 on behalf of the Corporation many valuable presentations to 

 the Museum and Library from Citizens and others, a 

 complete printed list of which accompanies this Report. 



W. R. BARKER, 



Chairman . 



The Council House, Bristol, 



14th November 1894. 



