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ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



December 31, 1895 



ASSETS. 



Real Estate, §250,000 00 



Stereotype Plates and copies of History . 257 00 



Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. U. Bonds . . 1,500 00 



Sinking Fund 23,872 50 



Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield R. R. Bonds . 1,980 00 



Notes Receivable '60i 85 



Library 34,812 62 



Furniture and Exhibition Ware .... 6,988 91 



A. P. Loring 5,000 00 



Due from tenants, December 31, 1895 . . . 1,687 74 



Cash 7,495 35 



$333,898 97 



LIABILITIES. 



Mortgage f 1,000 00 



Josiah Stickney Fund, payable to Harvard College, 



1899 12,000 00 



Prize Funds invested in the Building, viz. : 



Samuel Appleton Fund $1,000 00 



John A. Lowell " 1,000 00 



Theodore Lyman " 11,000 00 



Josiah Bradlee " 1,000 00 



Benjamin V. French " 500 00 



H. H. Hunnewell " 2,500 00 



William J. Walker " 2,354 43 



Levi Whitcomb ", 500 00 



Benjamin B. Davis " 500 00 



$20,354 43 



Prize Funds invested in Bonds : 



H. H. Hunnewell Fund $1,500 00 



Marshall P. Wilder " 1,000 00 



John Lewis Russell " 1,000 00 



3,500 00 



$23,854 43 



Prizes for 1895, payable in 1896 .... 8,250 00 



45,104 43 



Surplus $288,794 54 



CHARLES A. RICHARDSON, 



Treasurer. 



