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The total net receipts, including the cattle show, as will appear 

 by the following statements, was $25,429.49, the largest amount 

 ever received during any former exhibition. The expenditures 

 are necessarily larger, and will continue to be until the Institute 

 possesses a permanent location, as a large proportion of them arise 

 from the necessity of creating temporary fixtures, which have to 

 be repeated annually. 



The premiums awarded this year exceed in cost those of any 

 former year $1,000, together with $400 additional expense by en- 

 larging the machine room, make $1,400 extra expenses. Deduct- 

 ing this sum from the total amount of expenses incurred, as now 

 ascertained, they will fall some $600 below the expenses of the 

 last year. 



The following is a summary of the awards : 

 90 gold medals, 

 320 silver medals, 

 121 silver cups, 

 335 diplomas, 

 174 volumes of books, 

 $48 cash premiums, 



$20 and 3 bronze medals, Van Schaick premium, 

 $175 premiums on fire works. 



The premium committee estimate the premiums to cost five 

 thousand dollars. 



The following is a condensed statement of the receipts and ex- 

 penditures of the 25th annual Fair. For details you are referred 

 to the report of the finance committee, which accompanies and 

 makes a part of this report : 



RECEIPTS. 



To cash received from sale of tickets at Castle Garden, 



Wednesday, Oct. 6, $456 00 



" Thursday, " 7, 726 50 



« Friday, " 8, 769 00 



« Saturday, " 9, 623 00 



Carried forward, $2,574 50 



