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to that Society for a period of six weeks. An experienced 

 keeper is about being sent from London to take charge 

 of it, and learn the mode in which it has been treated here. 



" As an additional inducement to persons to join the 

 Society, and as a favour to those already members, your 

 Council modified the practice of admission on fete days, 

 and instead of suspending privileges of members on those 

 days and causing them to pay like non-subscribers, as 

 had been the custom, they caused two transferable tickets 

 to be issued to each member, thus giving him equivalent 

 for five shillings instead of charging him two shillings and 

 sixpence as heretofore. 



" The weekly proceedings of the Society having been 

 regularly put before the public through the newspapers, 

 your Council do not consider it necessary to enter into a 

 repetition of the facts therein stated ; but trust that an 

 inspection of the Treasurer's account, and of the details 

 which accompanies it, will prove most satisfactory. 



"There has been an increase of 25,964 visitors at the 

 Gardens this year as compared with last, making a total 

 of 111,729 for the period included in per annexed account; 

 to which if we add the number of visitors, since Thursday, 

 when the books closed, we shall have the very extra- 

 ordinary number of persons who have since the last 

 annual meeting availed themselves of the improvement 

 and recreation the Gardens afford. This increase in the 

 number of visitors is accompanied with their constantly 

 improving conduct. When the Garden is crowded with 

 three thousand persons at one penny each, as it some- 

 times is, the greatest decorum prevails, and it need only 

 be witnessed to prove the value of the Society, in an 

 educational view." 



Abstract of Treasurer's Account for the year to 3rd 

 May, 1844:— 



