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REPORT OF THE 
public again shows an increase upon former years, being no 
less than £241. The Swimming Bath has returned £115 10s. 
in 1865, being nearly £11 more than in 1864. The only 
diminution is found in the amount obtained for the hire of 
the tent, which is only £16 17s. 6d., whilst last year the tent 
brought in an income of £46 10s. 
The Commissioners of Woods and Forests having expressed 
their willingness to assist the Society as far as possible to meet 
the expenses of altering and repairing the Walls and other 
Buildings on the new ground, a sum of £31 16s. 9d. has 
already been received from them on this account, and appears 
at the credit of the Society. 
The total income of the Society for the year amounts to 
£1495 18s. lid., or nearly £32 more than that of last year. 
On the debit side of the account only two amounts are 
charged which require any special explanation. The sum of 
£199 18s. lOd. for expenses connected with the new property 
taken on lease from the Crown, is chiefly made up by the contract 
cost (£149 13s. 7d.) of building the new wall and making other 
alterations rendered necessary by the arrangements with the 
Committee of the Blind School. The remainder of the sum 
(£46. 15s.) is for repairs and other work in respect of the houses 
included in the Society’s lease; a portion of this sum has been 
repaid to the Society by the representatives of the Crown, as 
already stated. 
The amount of £202 5s., charged for general expenses and 
repairs, which is likewise rather heavy, has been increased in 
1865 by the expense of fitting up the room over the Library for 
the reception of the Ethnographical Collection, and in repairing 
the roof and skylights over this and the adjoining room which 
were in a very bad state. The total expenditure upon these 
objects is £71 10s. 4d., leaving £130 14s. 8d. for the general 
expenses of the Museum and Grardens and for repairs in the 
house property of the Society. 
The total expenditure of the year 1865 is £1508 3s. Id., 
showing an excess over the income of £12 4s. 2d., which, added 
to the balance of £259 19s. lOd. against the Society on the 
31st December, 1864, makes its present debt to the Treasurer 
£272 4s. 
