Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



81 



Interest on Mortgage, ..... 



Insurance, ...... 



Twenty Shares of Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad Co 

 Premiums and Gratuities, .... 



Printing, Advertising, Tickets, &c., 



Norton and Yale, two bills of Paper, 



Salaries, and care of Hall, .... 



Mechanics' Bills, and Miscellaneous Items, (under no particular 

 head,) .... ... 



Cash in the Treasury, December 31, 1851, 



Estimate of the Property of the Society. 



Real Estate in School Street, .... 



Furniture, 3 Chandeliers, .... 200 



2 Bradlee Vases, . . . .150 



2 Marble Vases, . . . .90 



Jones Vase, . . . . .75 



Glass Ware, «fcc., . . . .800 



Safe, &c., . . . . .250 



Flower Stands, Tables, &c., . . 250 



Library and Furniture, Pictures, &c., . . . 1700 



Transactions of the Society, in course of publication, , 400 



$600 00 



92 00 



1990 00 



1554 00 



457 00 



179 00 



480 00 



573 01 



800 14 



$7074 09 



.#36,000 00 

 00 

 00 

 00 

 00 

 00 

 00 

 00 

 00 

 00 

 — 3,915 00 



Permanent Funds. 



Appleton Fund, 

 Lyman, " (old), 

 Lowell, " . 

 Bradlee, " . 



$1,000 

 1,000 

 1,000 

 1,000 



00 

 00 

 00 

 00 



Stocks. 



Fifty-three Shares Worcester Railroad Stock, cost *$4,982 00 



Bonds of Connecticut and Passumpsic Railroad, *4,930 00 



Twenty Shares Portland, Saco and Portsmouth do., 1,990 00 



4,000 00 



Deduct Mortgage to Josiah Bradlee, Esq., 



11,902 00 



$55,817 00 

 . 10,000 00 



$45,817 00 

 In closing this Report, the Committee are happy to speak in terms of 

 commendation of the correct and business-like manner in which the Treas- 

 ury books have been kept. In making these remarks, the Committee feel 

 bound to state also, that the Treasurer considers the salary which he re- 

 ceives, inadequate to the responsibility and faithful discharge of his duties. 

 In this opinion the Committee are inclined to concur. The funds of the 

 Society are increasing, and these duties are becoming more and more re- 



VOL. XVIII. 



* Investment of the ^10,000 Lyman Fund. 

 -NO. II. 11 



