BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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I, —General Account of all Receipts and 



Payments, for the Year ending 25th 

 March 1817. 



II. — Account of Books published. 

 III. — -Account of the Book Fund. 



IV — Account of the Alexandrian MS. Fund. 

 V. — Account of Purchases in Natural History. 



VI. — Account of The Elgin Marbles. 



VII. — General Account of Funds and Estimated 

 Expenditure, for the Year ending 25th 

 March 1818. 



VIII. — Return of the Number of Persons ad- 

 mitted to view the Museum, from May 

 loth, 1810, to March 25th, 1817. 



I.~GENERAL ACCOUNT OF ALL RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS, 



For the Year ending 25th March 1817. 



RECEIPTS: 



Balance 26th March 1816 



One Year and a Half Dividend on £. 30,000 Red. Ann. to 5th April 1817 

 9 Months Annuity for keeping the King's Library, to the 5th of April 1816 

 Allowance of Property Tax - - - - - -- 



Produce of the Sale of Minerals - -•. 



Produce of the Sale of Coins - - - . - - - 



Produce of the Sale of Publications ........ 



Profit on Exchequer Bills - - - - - - - - -- 



Parliamentary Grant for Ordinary Expenses, £.7,003.19.6. - - Net.. - 

 Borrowed from the Alexandrian MS. Fund 



Total .,-,£. 



£. s. d. 



497 10 9 



1,305 



203 10 3 



201 16 5 



210 3 — 



784 17 8 



473 7 1 



134 13 6 



7,001 17 — 



1,085 12 9 



11,897 8 6 



PAYMENTS : 



Officers' Salaries to Lady Day 1817 -------- 



D° - - - - for extra Services -------. 



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

 D° for extra Services -..------. 



Rent and Taxes to Lady-day, One Year and a Half - - » . . 



Gardener's Salary to Michaelmas 1816 -----.-. 



Bookbinding .-..--..-.-. 



Stationary ------------- 



Coals -..-._-.-.-.. 



Candles and Lamplighting ---.---.-. 



Incidents for sundry Articles of domestic use ----.. 



Messrs. Pickering & Co. Solicitors - - - - -- 



Haifa Year's Interest on the Purchase of the Montague Collection of Zoology - 



Repairs unpaid in the Year 1816-- 



Drawings, Engravings, and printing Description of Gallery - - - - 



Fitting up Shelves, making Boxes, Drawers, and Cabinets, for Purchases in"! 

 Natural History -.-......._j 



Purchases in Natural History, above the Parliamentary Grant - - . 



Purchase of Books, above the Parliamentary Grant - _ - . . 



Expenses of the Elgin Marbles, above the Parliamentary Grant - - . 



Repairing the Phygalian Marbles _--._.-- 



Total -.--£. 



£. s. d. 



2*175 — — 



1,312 10 — 



1,356 12 6 



273 16 — 



734 — 9 



70 



308 3 3 

 202 11 lO 

 285 10 — 

 62 1 — 

 268 13 5 

 107 11 6 

 27 10 — 

 691 — 9 

 550 i8 6 



339 8 4 



45 19 3 



10 9 3 



10 17 6 



285 



9»"7 13 8 



„ , - fRECEIPTS 



Balance of [^^^^^,^^ 



Surplus in hand 



£.11,897 8 6 



■ 9.117 13 8 



■ ^-2,779 14 10 



304. 



IL— ACCOUNT 



