COUNCIL FOR 1839. 11 



A desire has been often expressed by individual Members 

 for the enlargement of the Garden, by including a portion of 

 the land purchased from the Crown ; and at the last Annual 

 Meeting the Council were directed to alter the line of road 

 into Marygate, so as to render it possible, at some future 

 period, to secure the hospitium within the general boundary 

 of the pleasure ground. This has been done, a neve road 

 has been made, nearly in a direct line from Lendal to the 

 lower end of Marygate, between the Hospitium and the river, 

 at a cost, including some contingent expenses, of .fllO. 



The property on the Manor Shore has in consequence been 

 relet, subject to this new arrangement. The grounds of the 

 Swimming Bath Company have been thus diminished, and 

 their rental is reduced accordingly. The portion of ground 

 allotted to the Gateway House has been in a corresponding 

 degree augmented ; and the Council have fixed the ground 

 rent to be paid by Professor Phillips on a term of thirty years, 

 at £\0., and they have the pleasure to report that the house 

 is completely finished. There still remain unlet some portions 

 of ground on the Manor Shore, and the income derived from 

 that property is for this year less than usual, owing to the 

 changes of occupation, allowances to tenants, and total loss 

 of rent from the Hospitium. 



Unfortunately the plans in agitation at the beginning of 

 1839 for restoring the Hospitium have not taken effect ; the 

 prospect of founding therein a School of Art has been aban- 

 doned ; and as only a very small part of the subscriptions 

 offered for the restoration of the Edifice, has been placed at the 

 disposal of the Society for the purpose of repairing it, and 

 saving it from farther decay, the Council have suspended all 

 further proceedings until the pleasure of this meeting should 

 be known. 



