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THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



Interest on Mortgage, (Woodbury,) . 



Premiums and gratuities, 



Salaries, .... 



Insurance, .... 



Printing, Advertising, &c., 



Bills of Expense for Annual Exhibition, 



Miscellaneous Bills, 



Chas. Burgiss' Bill, Painting, . 



Paid on Woodbury Mortgage, 



Paid Memorandum Check, 



Cash in the Treasurer's hands, 



Estimate of the Society^s Property. 

 Original purchase and hall, . . . $36,000 00 



Additional purchase, 1852, 



$390 00 

 1875 00 

 500 

 140 50 

 361 00 

 364 75 

 784 80 

 234 72 



#5000 00 

 600 00 



5600 00 

 940 71 



$12,214 68 



Furniture, Library, &c., 



Appleton fund, 



Lyman fund, 



Bradlee fund, 



Lowell fund, 



Lyman bequest, (in stocks,) 



20 shares Portsmouth and Saco Railroad, 



12,000 00 

 4,000 00 

 1,000 00 

 1,000 00 

 1,000 00 

 1,000 00 



10,000 00 

 2,000 00 



Liabilities of the Society. 

 Mortgage to Josiah Bradlee, . . $10,000 00 



Mortgage to Mr. Woodbury, (new purchase,) 4,500 00 



$68 000 00 



14,500 00 

 #53,500 00 



Leaving a balance of . 



The report was accepted. 



The Special Committee appointed to settle with the Mt. Auburn Ceme- 

 tery, submitted the following report : 



Gross sales of lots during the year 1854, . . $24,556 14 



Deduct Expenses, ..... 1,400 00 



#23,156 14 

 Society's proportion of one quarter, . . . $5,789 03 



Which sum had duly been paid into the hands of the Treasurer. 



It was ordered, on motion of C. M. Hovey, that $4500 of the above sum 

 be appropriated by the Treasurer to the payment of the mortgage of the 

 same amount due on the new purchase of the Society. 



Adjourned four weeks to the first Saturday in March. 



Mr. R. M. Copeland was appointed by the Executive Committee, Super- 

 intendent of the Society's Hall. 



