REPORT OP THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. 



The Finance Committee of the American Institute beg leave to 

 submit tlie following report of the receipts and expenditures for 

 the year ending January 31, 1867 : 



Balance in the treasury January 31, 1866 $1,276 14 



Receipts. 

 Rent of premises No. 351 Broadway and 



No. 891 Leonard street $8,000 00 



Treasurer State of New York appropria- 

 tion, 1865 _ 950 00 



Managers of the thirty-sixth annual Fair, 788 85 

 Admission fees and annual dues, viz : 



Life members $935 00 



Admission fees 425 00 



Annual dues 716 00 



2,076 00 



Certificates of awards 119 25 



Duplicate medals 13 00 



Sales of papers, &c 21 80 



Donation 10 00 



11,978 90 



$13,255 04 

 Expenditures. 



Taxes on real estate $1,689 27 



Assessment paving Broadway to Hudson st., 50 41 



Repairs 93 05 



Insurance on real estate and library 177 75 



Interest on bond and mortgage of $17,000, 1,088 50 



Books, periodicals, and binding 326 40 



Printing newspapers and advertising 228 32 



Blank books and stationery 60 33 



Gas 117 37 



