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Property of the Society. 



Real Estate in School street, $36,000 00 



Furniture, three Chandeliers, S390 00 



Two Bradlee Vases, 150 00 



Two Marble Vases, 90 00 



Jones Vase, 75 00 



Glass Ware, &c., 900 00 



Safe, &c., 300 00 



Flower Stands, Tables, &c., 300 00 



S2,205 00 



Library, $1,500 00 



Permanent Funds. 



Appleton Fund, 1,000 00 



Lyman Fund, 1,000 00 



Lowell Fund, 1,000 00 



Bradlee Fund, 500 00 



$3,500 00 



$43,205 00 



Of the donation of Mr. Bradlee, (07ie thousand dollars), there remains to be invested, as a 

 Permanent Fund, Jive hundred dollars. 



In closing this Report, the Committeee have the pleasure to state, that during the past 



year, the original Mortgage on their Real Estate has been reduced from fifteen thousand 



dollars to ten thousand dollars, and that the Society will soon receive a sum equal to the 



last named amount, by the bequest of the late Hon. Theodore Lyman. 



MARSHALL P. WILDER, , ^ 



^ Finance Committee. 



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JOSIAH STICKNEY, 



A communication was received from the Executors of the Will of the late Theodore 

 Lyman, asking for the appointment of a Committee to receive the Legacy and discharge 

 the Executors. 



Voted, That the Finance Committee, Messrs. Marshall P. Wilder, Josiah Stickney, and 

 Otis Johnson, have full power to adjust the matter with the aforesaid Executors. 



Voted, That the Committee of Arrangements be required to appoint the day for holding 

 the Annual Exhibition in September next, and report at the next meeting. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, January 26, 1850. 



Vice President B. V. French in the Chair. 



The Treasurer, William R. Austin, was added to the Finance Committee to settle with 

 the Executors of the late Hon. Theodore Lyman. 



The Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, Joseph Breck, reported that the next 

 Annual Exhibition should be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 

 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th of September next. 



A letter from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, relative to the time of holding their 

 next Annual Exhibition, was received. 



The Committee appointed to take into consideration what measures, if any, should be 

 adopted relative to the Exhibitions of the coming year, asked to be discharged from the 

 further consideration of the subject, and that the unfinished business be referred to the 

 Committee on the President's Address. Adopted. 



