25 



2d. To allow the Essex Institute, after the Athenaeum has been 

 accommodated, sufficient space for their library on the second floor, 

 together with such privileges in all the rooms on the same floor, as 

 may be necessary for the care, delivery and consulting of their books. 



3d. To allow members of the Essex Institute, who have paid all 

 their dues to that body, to consult the books of the Athenamm 

 Library. 



Provided; That the Essex Institute, at a legal meeting called for 

 the special purpose of considering this subject, shall agree : 



1st. To pay to the Athenaeum, annually, the sum of three hundred 

 dollars. 



2d. To allow the Proprietors to consult the books of the Institute 

 Library. 



3d. To pay one half the expense of warming the building and 

 keeping its approaches unobstructed. 



4th. That two years notice by either party may terminate this 

 agreement. 



The committee, of which Hon. II. S. Rogers Avas chairman, ap- 

 pointed to superintend the construction of the necessary cabinets 

 &c., for the deposit of the Library and collections in Plummer Hall, 

 faithfully attended to the duties assigned and obtained the requisite 

 funds without recourse to the ordinary income of the Society, viz. : 



By subscription in 1857 from 74 individuals, . . $2587 50 



By net proceeds from Ladies' Fair, September 1800, . 2043 <>2 



Sundries, ....... 12 00 



4643 12 

 The debits to this account are as follows : 



Cabinets, removal &c., ..... 3632 12 



Interest on loans, . . . . ... 77 25 



To the Publication account, .... 30:5 75 



Deposited in Salem Savings Bank, ... &50 00 



4643 12 



The sincere thanks of the Institute are due to those generous in- 

 dividuals wh'o contributed the first named sum, and also to the 

 Ladies by whose untiring exertions, the second sum was placed at 

 its disposal. 



Arrangements were thus made for what were then considered am- 

 ple accommodations for the library and collections of the Institute. 

 Since that time numerous additions have been, and are being made, 

 to the library and to the museum, so that it has now become necesr 

 sary to devise some plan to enable the Institute to meet the continu- 

 ally increasing demands upon its resources and to enable it to carry 

 out the objects of its organization in a suitable and proper manner. 

 May not the Institute hope that its friends and the patrons of 

 science and literature, will soon give that aid which is so essential 

 to a complete development of all its plans and a continuation of its 

 usefulness. 



