Nine months.

Totals

$65,000|$70,443 $65,000 $70,443 70

$67,000 $74,924 84

$91,000 $86,498 41 $2,181 10||$127,593 83 $133,775 68 $1,652 22 $135,000 $130,483 11 $2,193 61

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PUBLIC LIBRARY.

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* The appropriation for Periodicals is included in that for books.
The appropriation for binding before this year had included the salaries of the workmen in the Bindery, but is now changed to the appropriation for salaries.
$25,197.28 of this amount brought from last year, and added to the appropriations for books, to enable the Trustees to buy the Baiton Library. The total appropriation includes an
propriated is met by the income of the Trust Funds.
increase of $11,650, by vote of the City Council in December, 1873, in anticipation of the annexation of Charlestown and Brighton. The difference of the total amount expended and ap-
NOTE.

The expenditures for books cover the cost of those chargeable to our Trust Funds Account, as well as those charged to the annual appropriations from the City, and also in-
cludes such as are bought with the balances with our foreign agents at the close of the previous year. Our financial and library years now nominally correspond, but it will happen that
bills accruing subsequently to the middle of March (when the last requisition of the year, payable April 1st, is approved) will be audited in the subsequent year's account, beginning
nominally May 1st. In this way books added between March 15th and May 1st may be counted in one year's growth, and paid for in the subsequent year's account. The cost of main-
taining Branches after the first year makes part of the general items of the several appropriations.

The money for books bought on account of the Fellowes Athenæum is spent under the direction of the Book Committee of the Trustees of the Fellowes Fund.