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tions, which produced £1200; and that of Admissions to 
the Gardens, under which the amount of £11,781 will 
be found credited to the Society. If the two Exhibi- 
tion years are put aside, it will be observed that no such 
large sum has been received from the public for entrance 
into the Society’s Gardens since their first opening in 
May 1828. 
The two great National Holidays of Easter Monday and 
Whit Monday 1863 produced a very large number of 
visitors to the Society’s Gardens. On the latter day in 
particular the Gardens were more crowded with visitors 
than has ever been previously the case in any one day 
since their opening to the public—the enormous number 
of 30,374 persons having passed into. them between 
9 o’clock a.m. and sunset, and the receipts therefrom 
having reached the large amount of £757 14s. 6d. 
The cash-surplus carried forward to the Society’s credit 
from the year 1862 was £2120 Os. 3d. This sum added 
to the amount of Income received during the year, together 
with the sum of £891 8s. 6d., being the proceeds of the sale 
of £1000 Reduced 3 per Cents, part of the reserve-fund, 
gave the total sum of £23,296 1s. 8d, available for the 
expenditure of the year 1863. 
4, EXPENDITURE. 
This sum of £23,296 1s. 8d. was disposed of in the 
following way. The ordinary expenditure of the Society 
amounted to £16,024 16s.; the sum of £5227 15s. 2d. 
was devoted to special objects which are usually classed 
under the title of Extraordinary Expenditure, and a balance 
of £2043 10s. 6d. was thus left to the credit of the Society 
at their bankers at the end of the year 1863. 
But these sums include the arrears of the year 1862, and 
exclude the liabilities of the Society left unpaid on the 
31st of December, 1863. When the sum of £1626 12s. 5d., 
being the first of these amounts, is deducted, and that of 
£5796 17s. 7d. (being the amount of liabilities at the close 
of the year) is added, it will be found that the Society’s 
total expenditure for the year 1863 was £25,422 16s. 4d. 
Of this the sum of £16,139 1s. was required to meet the 
ordinary expenses of the year, and the remaining sum of 
£9283 15s. 4d. belongs strictly to extraordinary expendi- 
ture, the nature of which will be shown hereafter, 
