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also than in the two previous years, as will be seen from 



the following statement, viz. : — 



£ s. d. 

 Amount received in 1843 . . . 14 7 2 



Amount received in 1844 . . . 13 14 



Amount received in 1845 . . . 19 16 



Amount received in 1846 . . . 10 15 



EXPENDITURE. 



The auditors of the accounts of the year 1844, in their 

 report dated March 31, 1845, call attention to " the search- 

 ing investigation which had been instituted by the Council 

 into the expenditure of every department, and to the sy- 

 stem of retrenchment which had been adopted," and it is 

 with great satisfaction your Committee are now enabled to 

 state, that by the zealous and unabated exertions of the 

 Council, reductions of expenditure have been effected to an 

 extent which would have placed the financial position of 

 the Society, at the close of the year 1846, in a much more 

 favourable point of view had it not been for the very con- 

 siderable decrease in the Receipts as well as the various 

 "Extraordinary Expenses" which it was found indispen- 

 sable to incur, and which are stated to have amounted to 

 £1063 16^., which is an increase of £370 \s. 9d. over the 

 corresponding expenditure of the previous year; whereas 

 in the " Ordinary Expenditure " there is a decrease of no 

 less than £1048 14*. Id. 



Arrears. 

 The arrears, which at the close of the year 1845 amounted 

 to £1635 13*. 5d., have been reduced to £1028 8*. 2d., 

 being a decrease of £607 ^s. 3d. ; and considerable reduc- 

 tions have been eflFected under several important heads of 

 expenditure. 



Salaries and Wages. 



The Salaries and Wages have been reduced from £2071 

 185. 8d., their amount in 1845, to £1834 6s. lOd. in 1846, 

 being a decrease of £237 H*- 10c?. 



Cost of Animals. 



The cost of animals, which in the year 1844 amounted 



