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Excerpt from Official Catalogue of the Great Industrial Exhibition: In Connection With the Royal Dublin Society, 1853
Office department. - Sale of Season Tickets, Mr. Nicks'on. Correspondence, Mr. Killingly - Mr. Curry. Registry of Letters, 850. Mr. A. Ferguson Jun. Charge of Postage of Letters, Mr. Byrne and Mr. Rea. House Steward, Mr. Breslin. The Executive Committee, immediately on. Its appointment, advertised for plans for a suitable building to be erected on the lawn of the Royal Dublin Society, and having requested the assistance of Messrs. G. Miller, G. W. Hemans, and Lanyon, in selecting that most suitable for the purpose, resolved to adopt that submitted by J. Benson, Esq. Architect, who also superintended the works. The plan as originally adopted was subsequently medified by the addition of the northern and southern halls. In September, Mr. Dal gan finding that the accord modation provided by the Original plans would not be sufficient for the anticipated wants of the Exhibition, proposed to the Royal Dublin Society to advance a still further sum of 6, 000, to be applied on the same conditions as the first 20, and in February of this year he proposed to enlarge the Exhibition Building by the addition of buildings around the front court and the agricultural exhibition yard, for which purpose he agreed with the Royal Dublin Society to place ln the hands of the Executive Committee a still further sum of 14, 000, making the whole sum advanced by him It is needless to say that the total expenditure has 'far exceeded this sum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
