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REPORT OF 
printing 1 and advertising, which, with the legal and other 
miscellaneous expenses, amount to 219/. 
“ The sum of tIle expenditure on all these heads is 9787/., 
a sum ceitainly greater than had been anticipated, but not 
gi eater, the Committee feel assured, than was necessary to 
do justice to the plan of a County Museum, and to fulfil 
the wishes of the Subscribers. They request that their 
Minutes may be laid before the Society at its Annual Meeting, 
in order that a judgement may be formed of the manner in 
which the work has been conducted ; and they beg to be 
indulged in making a few observations upon this subject. 
It has been alieady remarked, that of some part of the 
task which devolved upon them, it was impossible to cal¬ 
culate the cost. Of this nature was the investigation of the 
remains of antiquity discovered in the Society’s premises, 
and the conversion of the large tract of rubbish which 
covered them into garden ground. But in all cases where it 
was practicable, it will be found that the charges for every 
part of the work were ascertained beforehand and contracted 
for, and that as much pains were taken in checking the 
expenditure as if it had been of private concern. 
“ lt cannot be necessary to enlarge upon the obligation 
which the Society owes to Mr. Wilkins, for the liberality 
with which he has conferred upon it the benefit of his well 
known talent and enlightened taste. The professional assist¬ 
ance received from Mr. Pickersgill has been already acknow¬ 
ledged in a manner which could not but be gratifying’ to his 
feelings ; and it only remains for the Committee to state, in 
justice to one of their own members, that the disinterested 
