AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 13 



Brought forward, $6,088 99 $16,994 49 



Salaries. 



Agent, $1,200 00 



Recording Sec'y,--$600 00 

 as Sec'y Farm- 

 ers Club,... 195 00 



795 00 



Clerk, 1,050 00 



Librarian, 600 00 



Boy, 66 00 



3,711 00 



9,799 99 



Balance in the treasury, Feb. 1, 1857, $7,194 50 



AMOUNT OF PROPERTY HELD BY THE INSTITUTE, 

 FEBRUARY 1, 1857. 

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

 Building, 89| Leonard-st., 800 00 



$45,800 00 



Less mortgage, 13,000 00 



• $32,800 00 



Library and fixtures, per report made 



to the Institute April 30, 1856, $11,419 46 



Books and periodicals added since, 79 15 



11,498 61 



Office furniture, safes, &c., _ 350 00 



Other property : 



Steam boilers at Castle Garden, $500 00 



Chandeliers, at Castle Garden, 60 00 



Shafting, pullies, steam and gas pipes, 



&c. , at the Crystal Palace, 1 ,000 00 



1,560 00 



$46,208 61 

 Cash in the treasury, Feb. 1, 1857, _ . . 7,194 50 



Total, _ $53,403 11 



JOHN A. BUNTING^ 

 N. G. BRADFORD, 

 JOHN McILVEEN, 

 BENEDICT LEWIS, Jr. 



Finance Committee. 



