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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. 



BY JOSIAH STICKNET, CHAIRMAN. 



Receipts for 1860. 

 By cash, balance brought forward from last year, . . $2,514 14 



" Principal, from Parker, balance over and above mort- 



gage note, ..... 9,317 12 

 " Income, Dividends and interest, . #3,220 67 



Rents, . . . 1,589 .58 



« " Receipts from Mount Auburn, 6,164 95 



« " Assessments ($205 from last year), 1.172 50 



" " Miscellaneous receipts, . 252 75 



" Not income. Receipts from Annual 



Exhibition, . . . 1,600 00 



Payments for 1860. 

 To cash paid Mount Auburn, in full, principal and interest, 



" " Premiums and gratuities, 



" » Salaries, 



" " Printing, binding, and advertising, 



" " Expenses Annual Exhibition, 



" " Painting, papering, plumbing, whiten- 



ing, &c., new quarters, 



" " Carpeting and furnishing same, 



" " Cancelling leases on School Street, 



" " H. Munroe, bills job work and repairs 



to roof of old building, 



" " Rent, two quarters, 



" " Special awards, mechanics and mis- 



cellaneous bills, 



14,000 45 



$25,831 71 



$6,496 90 



.124 00 



650 00 



558 00 



1,718 54 



822 00 



958 00 



2,225 00 



227 93 

 775 00 



1,709 76 



Investment — To cash paid 65 shares Fitchburg R. R., cost. 

 Cash in the treasury, December 31, 1860, 



Property of the Society. 



Permanent Funds, . . 



Lyman Fund, 



20 shares Portland and Saco Railroad, 



16 shares Boston and Maine Railroad, 



This year — 65 shares Fitchburg Railroad, 



" Parker's note, secured by mortgage, 



" Library, #2,000 ; Furniture and glass, $2,500, 



Cash on hand December 31, 1860, 



11,768 23 



6,625 75 



940 83 



$25,831 71 



$4,000 00 



10,000 00 



2,000 00 



1,600 00 



6,500 00 



60,000 00 



4,500 00 



940 83 



),540 83 



