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appointed a Committee ; and it was requested tliat Subscriptions 

 should be sent to the said William Henry Hardinge and myself as 

 such Honorary Treasurers, or to the local Honorary Secretaries, Sir 

 William Tite, M.P., F.E.S., and William Chappell, Esq., F.S.A. 



5. A considerable amount of Subscriptions, including the sum of 

 five pounds each from the said William Henry Hardinge and myself, 

 were sent in, amounting in the whole to a sum of about nine hundred 

 and fifty pounds, and same were, from time to time, invested by the 

 said William Henry Hardinge and myself in the purchase of Govern- 

 ment Xew Three per cent. Stock. In addition to the sum so sub- 

 scribed, in the month of February, 1871, the Eeverend Maxwell 

 Close deposited with the Committee a sum of one hundred pounds 

 in cash, to be added to the amount then subscribed, provided a further 

 sum of one hundred pounds should be contributed by the 1st of 

 J^ovember then next, and the said sum of one hundred pounds was 

 invested by the said William Henry Hardinge and myself in the 

 purchase of one hundred and seven pounds twelve shillings and eight 

 pence Government ISTew Three per cent. Stock, in the joint names of 

 the said William Henry Hardinge, myself, and the said Reverend 

 Maxwell Close, and same now stands in the said three names in the 

 books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland ; but the 

 dividends on said sum of Stock have been, from time to time, invested 

 by me and the said William Henry Hardinge, in the names of myself 

 and said William Henry Hardinge, and form part of the said sum of 

 Stock proposed to be transferred by me ; and the dividends on all the 

 said Stock were re-invested from time to time, and such Stock now 

 amounts to the sum of one thousand two hundred and nine pounds 

 eighteen shillings and four pence ; and the Stock and cash intended to 

 be transferred and brought into Court by me is the entire amount of 

 such Subscriptions and investments, and recently accrued and unin- 

 vested dividends, after deducting the aforesaid sum of eight pounds, 

 and the sum of four pounds seven shillings and four pence for the 

 costs of and incidental to the taking the opinion of counsel as to the 

 course to be pursued by the trustees, and the sum of five pounds nine 

 shillings and seven pence paid by me for printing and sending out the 

 circular mentioned in the next paragraph hereof. 



6. The said sum of one thousand two hundred and nine pounds 

 eighteen shillings and four pence is wholly insufficient to endow and 



