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Compositions or Admiseion Fees, should be immediately 

 added to the invested capital of the Society ; and they en- 

 tertain the confident hope that if this rule is adopted and 

 strictly acted upon, it will go far towards placing the So- 

 ciety in a more prosperous condition in respect to its 

 finances. 



Ivory Tickets. 



The increase in the receipts from Ivory Tickets, although 

 small, amounting only to £16 18*., is of more consequence 

 than the simple amount would indicate, inasmuch as this 

 must be contrasted with a pi'ogressive decrease in each of 

 the two previous years, viz. : — 



£ s. 

 Decrease in the year 1844 ... 26 5 

 Decrease in the year 1845 ... 29 9 



Total decrease £55 14*. 



The Auditors are much gratified in being enabled to call 

 attention to this small increase, inasmuch as it is a further 

 proof of the increased interest taken in the Society by the 

 Fellows and their friends. 



Admissions to the Gardens. 



The Auditors regret' that they cannot report an equally 

 satisfactory result as regards the Public, the Admissions to 

 the Gardens showing a decrease of £233 4*. ; and the 



Promenades 



a further decrease of £40 17/., making a total decrease 

 under these two heads of receipt of £274 Is.; and this is 

 the more to be regretted, as in each of the two previous 

 years the Auditors were enabled to congratulate the Soci- 

 ety on an increase of receipts from the Public, amounting, 

 in the year 1844, to £159 12*., and in the year 1845, to 

 £240 10*. Qd., there having previously been a progressive 

 annual decrease, which amounted in the year 1843 to 

 £276 3«. Your Committee have observed with great re- 

 gret so considerable a recommencement of falling off in 

 this most important source of the Society's Income, and 



