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the sum received amounted to £525 12s., being the fourth 
best receipt that has ever taken place on that day. On 
Easter Monday, which from its earlier occurrence is na- 
turally not so well adapted for out-door amusements as 
Whit Monday, the number of admissions was 17,644, and 
the amount received was £441 2s., being the largest sum 
ever taken on any Kaster Monday since the opening of the 
Gardens to the public in 1828. 
Besides the receipts from admittances to the Gardens, 
the most noticeable items of increase of the past year over 
1859 consist of— 
Gg 8. a: 
Compositions. . . « «150 0 O 
Garden Sales. . « . . 168 8 5 
Publication Sales . . . 21613 38 
The increase of the amount received for composition fees, 
which realized £150 more than in the year 1859, and £412 
beyond the average receipts during the previous five years, 
is very satisfactory, as showing great confidence in the 
permanent prosperity of the Society. The increase of the 
receipts from the sales of duplicate stock and of the Society’s 
publications will be both alluded to in a subsequent part 
of the Report. 
b. Expenditure. 
The sum of £18,648 3s. 8d., already alluded to as being 
the gross total formed by the income of the year 1860, 
when added to the balance carried over from 1859, was 
disposed of in the following manner :—The ordinary Ex- 
penditure of the Society required the sum of £12,950 10s. ; 
the sum of £2999 5s. 11d. was devoted to extraordinary ex- 
penditure in the shape of buildings and other works tend- 
ing to the permanent improvement of the Society’s esta- — 
blishment, and the sum of £950 was added to the reserve 
fund, which by the addition of £1000 stock purchased 
with this sum in the month of February 1860, now stands 
at the amount of £6000 Reduced Three per Cents. The 
balance of £1748 7s. 9d., left after deducting these sums, 
was carried over to the credit of the present year. 
The somewhat increased expenditure incurred in 1860 
on the ordinary maintenance of the Socicty’s establish- 
ment, has not taken place without the careful supervision 
of the Council, and they are enabled to give such reasons 
