^^^ FINANCES 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Amount awarded for IMeehanical, JManufactured and Fancy 



Articles, $52,66 



Total amount awarded, $676,65 



Premimias were paid to one Imndred and, seventy-nine different 



persons, and the amounts distributed as follows : 



Fitchburg, ■ - - - " - 296,83 



Pritfeeton, - - - . 184,00 



Lunenburg, - - . - 32,57 



Leominster, - ^ - - 28,25 



Shirley, - - - -22,50 



Sterling, » - - - 19,25 



■\Vestminster, - - - - 12,00 



Ashby, - - - . 9,25 



xishburnham, - - - - 4,50 



Athol, ... - 2,00 



Gardner, - - - - 1,50 



Templeton, - - - 1,00 



Total, - - - $613,83 



FINANCES. 



PvECEIPTS. 



Amount received from the Commonwealth, $600,00 



'* " '* Income of the Fund, 223,97 



New Members, 60,00 



♦* " Admission Fees, &c., 451,40 



Total, $1335,37 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Amount of premiums and gratuities paid out, $613,83 



** Current expenses, &;e., for the year, 317,12 



Total, $930,95 



Amount of the permanent fund, Dec. 7, 1859, $4100,00 



J^ncrease of the funds the past year, 300,00 



