174 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Boston, January 5, 1877. 



We have examined the foregoing account and found it correct, 

 and the balance of cash on hand, two hundred and twenty-nine 

 dollars and eighty-nine cents, as stated. 



[Signed] C. 0. Whitmore, 



H. H. Hdnnewell, 

 B. P. Cheney, 



Finance 

 Committee. 



ASSETS AND LIABILITIES. 



Assets. 



Real Estate, Furniture, and Exhibition Ware, costing $256,415 51 

 Add for Rose Boxes and Card Clasps, 170 05 



$256,585 56 



Library, last year $14,795 60 



Paid this year, .... 765 80 



15,561 40 



Bonds of C, B. & Q. R. R., par value, . . . 1,500 00 



Total, $273,646 96 



Liabilities. 



Mortgage debt at 5^ per cent., payable Sep- 

 tember, 1883, .... $60,000 00 



Loan without interest, payable to Harvard 



College in 1899, .... 12,000 00 



Floating Debt, 11,000 00 



$83,000 00 



Balance of assets over liabilities, . . $190,646 96 



