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AuDiTOBS' Report, lSp7. 

 Thennclcvsigned Aurlitoi's have to report that tliey have exainiuerl the Youchers 

 ■with the Cash book and find them correct. Balaure in tlie hands of the Treasurer 

 One hundred and seventy-eight pounds twelve shillings and ten pen(;e, and the 

 sum of One thousand sis hundred pounds invested on securities shewn to ns. 



-, CI (• Auditors. 



Samuel hpreull, ) 



REPORT OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 



The Committee appointed to take steps for the erection of suitable buildings for 

 the Canadian Institute, beg leave to report : That they have examined the work- 

 ing plans prepared by Messrs. Cumberland & Stonn, in accordance with the reso- 

 lution of the former Building Committee. Although highly approving of the 

 general design and convenient arrangements of the contemplated buildings, they 

 believe that the plans provide greater accommodation than will probably be re- 

 quired for several years, and that the cost of the erection would very much exceed 

 the means at the disposal of the Institute. They endeavoured, therefore, to ascer- 

 tain how far, without abandoning the hope of ultimately completing the whole, 

 some portions of the design might for the present be altogether postponed, or 

 only partially finished. They found, however, that even upon this supposition 

 they could not hope to obtain a building which the Institute could occupy, under 

 an outlay of £6,000, and that, even then, it would be in an unfinished state, and 

 in many respects inconvenient in its arrangement, whilst the necessary alterations 

 would very much increase the cost of completing the original design, if this 

 should afterwards be found practicable. 



The Committer have therefore been reluctantly compelled to abandon altogether 

 the plan sanctioned by the former Building Committee, and to obtain a new desiga 

 which, without exceeding the available means of the Institute, Avould afford 

 liberal accommodation for present requirements, and be complete in itself 

 whilst making provision for a possible extension hereafter. 



Messrs. Cumberland & Storm had originally volunteered to prepare the plans 

 and superintend the building gratuitously, but as the first desigji was entirely 

 laid aside, the Committee, although fully appreciating the generosity of their offer, 

 resolved that it would be more just to the architects, and would afford the Build- 

 ing Committee more complete control over the works, if Messrs. Cumberland <fe 

 Storm were to be paid at the usual rate for their professional services connected 

 with the new building. 



Plans have therefore been prepared upon this understanding, and tenders have 

 been advertised for, with the intention of submitting the plans and lenders at the 

 same time to the Council for their sanction; but in tlie present financial difficulties 

 it has been judged more prudent to postpone any action in the matter for another 

 season. 



John Langton, Convener. 



December, 1851. 



In concluding this Report, the Council sincerely regret that the hope expressed 

 at. the close of the Report of last year with regard to the New Building, should 

 be still unrealized. The delay in the prosecution of the work has not arisen from 

 any supineness on the part of the Council ; for, as will be seen by (he above Report, 



