14 REPORT OF THE 



Under this Agreement the Baths were regularly supplied 

 with water up to the commencement of the past year. 

 In the spring of 1845, the Yorkshire Philosophical Society 

 purchased the rights of the Swimming Bath Company in 

 the Baths and under their Agreement, and at some period 

 between that time and December 1848, the Old Water- 

 works Company ceased to exist, having transferred their 

 interests to the New Water Company, and after such transfer 

 the rent of £5 was duly paid pursuant to the stipula- 

 lations of the Agreement to the New Water Company, and 

 received by them without any objection being raised from the 

 31st day of December 1848, to the 31st day of March 1850. 

 In the spring of last year, however, the New Company (having 

 transferred their works from Lendal Ferry to a distance from 

 York), and being applied to by the Secretaries to affix the 

 necessary communications from their new main pipes to 

 the Baths, gave the Society notice, that they did not consider 

 themselves bound by the Agreement of 1837, and that any 

 supply of Water to the Baths must be under a new Agreement. 



This led to a Meeting between a Committee appointed by the 

 Council, and the Directors of the Water Company, at which the 

 latter repudiated altogether the recited Agreement of 1837, 

 but (subject to the future settlement of the rights of the parties) 

 they offered to supply the Baths (only) for £30 per annum, 

 leaving the charge for the Fountains, Mr. Baines's House, the 

 Lodge, and the other requirements of the gardens (which had 

 always been up to that time supplied at a fixed rate of £6. 8s. 

 per annum for the whole) altogether uncertain. 



To these terms, temporary only and highly disadvantageous 

 as they were, the Council could not agree, and without relin- 

 quishing what they conceived to be the rights of the Society 

 under the Agreement of 1837, it became a matter of necessity, 

 that immediate steps should be taken, to procure the per- 

 manent supply of the requisite quantity of water. With this 

 view estimates were obtained, from which it appeared that the 

 Society could supply itself with the whole of the water required, 

 at a cost including interest of Capital expended and other pay- 

 ments of from £20 to £25 per annum, and the Council au- 



