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2. ALTERATION IN THE FORM OF THE SATURDAY 
AND SuNDAY TICKETS. 
In consequence of the large number of Members who have 
habitually exceeded their privileges during the summer 
months by issuing more Orders than they are entitled to 
under the Society’s Rules on Saturdays and Sundays, it 
was resolved by the Council in the course of last year to 
make a slight alteration in the form of the Saturday and 
Sunday Tickets, commencing with the Ist of January of 
the present year. The nature of these alterations was com- 
municated to each Fellow in a circular issued on the Ist 
of November last. It consists simply in this. Instead of 
supplying each Fellow on application with any number of 
blank Orders for Saturdays and Sundays, and leaving the 
dates on them to be filled in by the Fellow who issues 
them, each Fellow under the new system is furnished with 
two books of Tickets at the commencement of every year, 
one of which books contains two dated Tickets, each admit- 
ting one person, for every Saturday, and the other book two 
dated Tickets, each admitting one person, for every Sunday 
during the year. At the same time, in order to avoid the 
trouble of a fresh application every year, which has been 
hitherto necessary, Fellows who have compounded for their 
Annual Subscription, or who have given a banker’s order 
for the regular payment thereof, are invited to give a general 
order for their Tickets to be forwarded to any specified ad- 
dress on the Ist of January in each year, for which purpose 
printed forms are supplied at the Society’s Office. As far 
as can be yet told this system appears to act well in every 
respect, and has given very general satisfaction. 
3. STATE OF THE FINANCES. 
a. Income. 
The total Income of the Society received during the 
year 1866 was £24,378 19s. 5d., exceeding that of the 
previous year by the sum of £921 17s. 8d., and being the 
largest amount ever received in one year by the Society, 
except in the two “Exhibition” years.. The following 
Table will show the various sources whence this Income 
proceeded, and the corresponding amounts received under 
each head in 1865 :— 
