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taken to meet this emergency will enable them to contmue m 

 undiminished vigour the whole of the operations of the Gai- 

 Sen EstabUshment, on which the prosperity and "^e ulness o 

 the Society so essentially depend; for although the gros 

 amount received m 1852 fell so far short of the exceptional 

 ;"!• of 1851, and even of 1850 it must ^e borne in mind as 

 a very encouraging fact, that the Income of If ^/JJf^^^^°^ 

 the Income of 1847, 1848, and 1849 by upwards of fifty per 



cent. 



