113 PROCEEDINGS. 



Payments for the Year 1848. 



Stocks purchased, Si, 398 75 



Repairs of Hall, 414 12 



Cost of Transactions and Printing, ..- 1,819 72 



Annual Festival, 980 99 



Doorkeeper, &c., 476 00 



Premiums, &c., 1.350 00 



Library, 168 35 



Interest on Mortgage, - 750 00 



Mii^cellaneous Expenses, ....----.- 1,924 49 



Balance in the Treasury, - 81 70 



$9,364 12 

 Property of the Society. 



Building, $36,000 00 



Furniture of Hall, 1,835 00 



Library, 1,468 00 



Stocks, 3,700 00 



Appleton and other Funds, - - 3,500 00 



$46,503 00 



The debts of the Society are some few outstanding accounts, and a mortgage of fifteen 

 thousand dollars. 



On motion of Mr. Newhall, 



Voted, That the Finance Committee be requested to negotiate for the payment of the 

 present mortgage, when it becomes due in May. 



The President suggested the holding a semi-annual show of Roses, &c., in June. The 

 subject was referred to the Committee of Arrangements, to report at a future meeting. He 

 also proposed that a Catalogue should be published of all the varieties of Fruit which have 

 been exhibited at the rooms of the Society, from its organization up to the present time, 

 with the names of the exhibitors. Referred to the Fruit Committee. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, February 3, 1849, 

 President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair, 



Mr. Wilder, from the Committee appointed to settle with the Tresisurer of Mount Auburn 

 Cemetery, reported that they had attended to that duty, and that the Society's proportion of 

 the proceeds, amounting lo two thousand five hundred and eightytwo dollars and fortythree 

 cents, had been received, and paid over to the Treasurer. 



Mr. Breck, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, reported that the twentyfirst 

 Annual Exhibition should be held on the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st of September next. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, February 17, 1849. 



President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair. 



A letter from the Antiquarian Society was received, requesting copies of the Transactions 

 of the Society, &c. 



Voted, That the Corresponding Secretary forward the same. 



The Committee on Publication submitted a report, recommending the Society to publish 

 one more number of its "Transactions, with Plates," to complete the series. Accepted. 



