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The Committee of Auditors have great pleasure in obser- 

 ving, that while the Income of the Society has been maintained 

 at an amount which is satisfactory, although not quite equal 

 to that of the previous year, there has been a very consider- 

 able decrease in the Expenditure, the payments, including 

 the arrears of 1856, having amounted to £14,352, while in 

 the previous year the payments were £15,839 I5s. ^d. 



The Expenditure incurred in the year 1857 appears to have 

 been £12,305 14*. 7c?-j while the Income amounted to £14,822 

 \5s. 5d. The heavy liabihties of 1856 absorbed the whole of 

 this surplus of £2517 ; but as the liabilities standing over on 

 the 31st of December, 1857, only amounted to £919 4*. 2d., 

 the Income of the present year will be relieved from any 

 similar pressure upon it, and will, if the expenditure is kept 

 down to its present rate, probably present a surplus, which 

 will tend materially to accomplish that increase of the funded 

 capital to £5000, which was recommended in the Report 

 made at the last Anniversary. 



The actual decrease in the Liabilities on the 31st of De- 

 cember, 1857, as compared with that of the corresponding 

 period in 1856, was £2043 15*. 8c?., while on the other hand, 

 your Committee find that the Cash Assets had increased by 

 the amount of £608 lis. lOd., showing a total improvement 

 of £2652 'Js. 6d. in the financial position of the Society. 

 Your Committee note also that the Cash at the Banker's on 

 the 31st of December exceeded the amount of the liabilities 

 of all kinds at the same date. 



Your Committee notice with satisfaction, as a proof of the 

 continued popularity of the Society's establishment, that the 

 number of Visitors on Mondays and Holidays had exceeded 

 those of the preceding year by 1 1,558 persons, although there 

 is a slight decrease in the numbers on other days in the 

 week. 



In concluding their Report, your Committee have again to 

 return their thanks to the Accountant, Mr. Leigh, for the per- 

 spicuous manner in which his accounts have been submitted 

 to their examination. 



EDWARD GREENAWAY. 

 JOHN D. SALMON. 

 EDWARD HAMILTON, M.D. 

 SAMUEL OXENHAM. 

 WILLIAM MARTYN. 

 EDWARD PERIGAL. 

 EDWARD JOHNSTONE. 

 II Hanover Square, March 24, 1858. 



