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accounts. This excludes the Government grants which are made for 

 specific objects, and exhibits only the strength, and the use made, of 

 the Society's own resources. 



Income. 



Contributions, 



Library, 



Sale of Oriental Publications, 



Journal, 



Expenditure. 



Zoological Department, 

 Library, 



Sale of Oriental Publications, 

 Journal, 



Secretary's Office, 

 Building, 



Miscellaneous — including 1804-10 of liabilities cleared 

 off,.. 



. 8,839 



4 



5 



105 



8 







. 1,417 



8 



(> 



. 1,222 











11,584 



4 



LI 



643 



3 



3 



. 2,080 



1 



3 



1 



8 







. 3,383 



5 



9 



848 







6 



39 



A 



7 







. 2,914 



9 



6 



Total,.. 9,910 3 3 



Surplus income, . . 1674 1 8 

 Thus with the balance in hand on the 30th December, 1850, of 

 Rs. 1,674-1-8 the year's management shows a present available cash 

 balance of Rs. 3,481-9-1. If against this assets be placed the full remain- 

 ing amount of the Society's liabilities, pressing or otherwise, viz. Rs. 

 4,584-14-1, it will be seen thatRs. 1,103-5 only, or a sum considerably 

 within the above surplus, has to be liquidated in the course of the 

 current year. 



The outstanding assets of the Society under all heads are rated 

 at Rs. 14,264-3-4, more than half of which is supposed to be recover- 

 able. The attention of the Finance Committee will now be given to 

 the determination of the true character of these assets, to the recovery 

 of such as are available, and to the removal from the accounts of such 

 as are not likely to be realized. 



The estimated income from contributions for the current year may 

 be taken at 8,000 Rs,, while of the other sources, that from the sale of 



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