COUNCIL FOR 1845 . 
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The Council have likewise thought it advisable to make an 
alteration in the mode of payment for admission, and instead of 
issuing tickets as heretofore, to receive the money at the gates, 
whereby much inconvenience to strangers is obviated. 
In accordance with the resolution of the last Annual Meeting, the 
Council appointed a committee of the Society to make the necessary 
arrangements for the Horticultural Exhibition to be held in the 
Society’s grounds. The Exhibition took place in August, and it is a 
subject of regret, that whilst the display was more splendid than on 
any former occasion, the receipts, owing to the very unfavourable state 
of the weather, were insufficient to meet the necessary expences 
thereof. The Council however are in nowise intimidated at the large 
amount of the deficiency, and feel assured that the Meeting will 
sanction a similar course to be pursued in the present year, satisfied 
that the great encouragement given to Horticulture thereby, and the 
increasing interest shown in the Exhibition, wilfi under ordinary cir¬ 
cumstances, amply repay the Society for any loss they may have 
sustained. 
In looking at the Treasurer’s account which is appended, the 
Members will perceive how advantageous in all respects are the ar¬ 
rangements which the munificent Beckwith Legacy has rendered 
possible. It has relieved our Mortgages, repurchased our Land, built 
our Subcurator’s house, ornamented our grounds, and allowed of the 
addition of an able officer to our Museum Estabhshment, and is yet 
capable of supplying means for the last great operation which the 
Council reccommend, viz.; the enclosure of St. Leonard’s Hospital. 
May this work be happily completed, and be followed by many stre¬ 
nuous efibrts to preserve for the future the memorials of the past; 
efforts nowhere more hkely to be supported, nowhere more likely to 
yield valuable fruits, than in the City and County of York. 
