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I, — General Account of all Receipts and 

 Payments, for the Year ending 25th 

 March I8I6. 



II, — Account of Major Edwards's Fund. 

 III. — Account of Works published. 

 IV. — Account of the Book Fund. 



v. — Account of the Alexandrian MS. Fund. 



VI. — Account of Purchases in Natural History. 



VII. — General Account of Funds and Estimated 

 Expenditure, for the Year ending 25th 

 March I8I6. 



VIII. — Return of the Number of Persons ad- 

 mitted to view the British Museum, from 

 May 10th, I8O9, to March 25tb, I8I6. 



I.— GENERAL ACCOUNT of all RECEIPTS and PAYMENTS, 

 For the Year ending 25th March I8I6. 



RECEIPTS: 



Balance 26th March 1815, corrected 



One Year's Dividend on £.30,000. Reduced Annuities, Property Tax deducted - 

 One Yeai-'s Salary of the King's Librarian, to 5th July 1815 . - - - 

 Parliamentary Grant for the Year ending 25tb March I8I6, £.7,066. 4. lO.Net - 

 Profit on Exchequer Bills -.---_-..- 

 Produce of Publications --.--..---- 

 Borrowed from Major Edwards's Fund ---_.-.-- 

 Borrowed from the Alexandrian MS. Fund .-.---"- 



Total -----£. 



PAYMENTS: 



Officers' Salaries to Lady Day I8I6- 



D" - - - - for extra Services - - - - - . 1. _ 

 Wages and Board Wages of Attendants and Servants - . - - - 

 Rent and Taxes to Michaelmas 1 8I6 .-....-- 



Gardener's Salary Two Years to Michaelmas 1815 - 



Bookbinding --.--.-_-_--- 

 Stationary -.- -_ 



Coals .-._ -.__.____. 

 Candles and Lamplightiiig --._._.... 

 Incidents for sundry Articles of domestic use - - 



Repairs, from December 31st, 1814, to September 30th, 1815, £.763. 17- 9\\ 

 only the Glazier's Bill paid --- -J 



Printing Description of Gallery - - -- 



Expenses of Baron de Molls' Library .- 



Paid for Purchases in Natural History, above the Parliamentary Grant 



D" - for Purchase of Books ..-D''---D'' 



Expense of Autograph Letters ......... 



Total ----£. 



Balance of 



fRECEIPTS 



\EXPENSES 



Surplus in hand - - - 



13,350 10 7 

 12,852 19 10 



497 10 9 



£. 



316 



810 



271 



7,064 



111 



197 



3,504 



.1,075 



11 



7 

 6 

 3 

 11 

 3 



d. 

 2 



4 

 3 



10 



13,350 10 7 



1,881 — 6' 



1,420 8 6 



1,259 — 8 



284 — 9 



140 



535 12 — 

 179 15 6 

 349 17 6 

 150 2 — 

 132 — 7 



53 7 6 



821 1 — 

 4,777 17 5 

 326 17 9 

 341 18 . 2 

 200 



12,852 19 10 



395. 



II.— ACCOUNT 



