FUND, FKOM SEPTEMBER 1st, 1859, TO AUGUST 31st, 1860. 23 



£ 8. d. 

 By Amount brought forward 5324 11 11 



LENDING LIBRAEIES. 



By W. R. Eoulston, Superintendent Librarian, Year's Salary £120 



„ Peter Cowell, Assistant, ditto 68 18 



„ J. Rigby, Librarian, North District, ditto 84 3 4 



„ Rent, M8 17s. 6d. ; Taxes, £16 Os. 6d 64 18 



„ Cash advanced for Disbursements 5 



„ Stationery, including fifteen Day Books, at 19s. each .... 22 17 



„ Insurance, £12 7s. 6d. ; Water, £4 8s. 8d 16 16 2 



„ Coals, £16 16s.; Gas, £210s. 9d 37 10 9 



„ Gas Stove, £'4 15s.; Chairs, 12s.; Joiners' Work, ^13 5s. 2d. 16 12 2 



„ Printing, £11 5s. ; ditto Catalogues, i'63 6s. Od 74 11 6 



„ Repairs, £5 lis. 5d.; Brushes, £3 15s 8 6 5 



„ Boys' Wages, £114 13s.; Cleaning Libraries, £33 16s. .. 148 9 



„ Ink, Gum, Sawdust, Twine, Floor Cloths, &c 2 14 3 



„ Carriage of Books, £1 2s. 5d. ; Postages, £2 15s. 6d 3 17 11 



„ Sweeping Chimneys, &c., 16s. 5d. ; Omnibus Hire, 8s. .. 14 5 



„ Whitewashing Yard, repairing Water Pipe, &c 2 9 



„ Blinds, Ironmongery, repairing Locks, &c 1 14 2 



BOOE ACCOUNT :— 



By 3,000 volumes purchased £435 2 5 



„ Binding, Lettering, and Repairing 276 19 2 



712 1 7 



Deduct received in aid of Rate, viz. :— £1392 9 8 



By the Chief Librarian — 



On account of Rent of House in Hardy-St. 10 



Overcharge in Water Rate repaid 1 2 6 



By the Superintendent of the Lending Libraries — 



Fines received at the North Library 43 16 3 



Ditto South Library 77 19 6 



For Catalogues sold 86 17 6 



Tickets and Renewals, £35 10s. lOd. ; 



Cash for Disbuisements, £5 40 1 10 



Sale of Waste Paper 3 11 10 



263 18 5 



1128 11 3 



Net expenditure out of Rate 6453 3 



By Balances, viz. : — 



Cash in hands of Messrs. Heywood & Co 607 15 



Ditto the Chief Librarian .» 41 4 7 



Ditto Superintendent of Lending Libraries 5 



653 19 



Rate of 1860 in Arrear, viz. :— ^'^^^'^ ^ ^ 



Kirkdale £248 11 8 



Toxteth Park 783 15 4 



£1032 7 



