12 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Brought forward, $2,533 14 $4,550 40 $17,561 36 



Clerk, $1,300 00 



Librarian, 923 24 



Boy, 264 50 



5,020 88 



Total expenditures, 14,542 28 



Balance in the treasury Feb. 1, 1858, $3,019 08 



AMOUNT OF PROPERTY HELD BY THE INSTITUTE, 

 JANUARY 30, 1858. 



Real estate. No. 351 Broadway, cost,. . $45,000 00 

 Building 89 1 Leonard St., 800 00 



$45,800 00 

 Less mortgage, 13,000 00 



32,800 00 



Library and fixtures, per report made to the Insti- 

 tute Jan. 30, 1858, 12,387 85 



Office furniture, safes, &c., 350 00 



Other property, at the Crystal Palace : 



Steam boilers and fixtures, $2,200 00 



Shafting, pullies, steam and gas pipes,. 1,000 00 



Brake and dynamometer, 280 00 



Steam gauge, (Allen's,) 25 00 



Timber, tables, benches and trucks, . . 500 00 



4,005 00 



Cash in treasury Jan. 30,1858,.. 3,019 08 



Nineteen gold and 75 silver medals, and 7 silver 

 cups on hand, paid for by Managers of the 29th 

 Fair, and not used, valued at, 784 00 



Total, $53,345 93 



JOHN A. BUNTING, 

 BENEDICT LEWIS, Jr., 

 JOHN M REED, 

 S. R. COMSTOCK, 

 N. G. BRADFORD. 



Finance Committee. 



New- York, January 30, 1858. 



