REPORT OF THE KEW COMMITTEE. xlv 



9. Mr. Gassiot to the Hon. Charles Gore, Esq. 



" Kew Observatory, June 12, 1855. 

 «« Sir,— The Chief Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works not having 

 favoured the Kew Committee v?ith any communication relative to their ap- 

 plication to you for the introduction of gas into the Observatory, and which 

 application you informed me, in your letter of the 27th of last March, you 

 had forwarded to him, I addressed a letter to Sir William MolesM'orth on the 

 26th ult. ; on the 2nd inst. the Assistant Secretary writes me as follows : — 



" 'I am directed to inform you that the Board have no objection to the 

 use of gas in the building in question, but that the whole of the work must 

 be done by, and at the expense of, the British Association, and to the satis- 

 faction of the Board's officer in charge of the district.' 



"The correspondence has been submitted to the Kew Committee, and I 

 am instructed to inquire if you will grant permission for the gas to be laid 

 on- to the Observatory through the Park, and whether, in the case of your 

 granting such permission, any, and if so, what amount of compensation will 

 have to be paid to the tenant in possession. 



"The Committee are anxious, before they present their Report to the 

 Council of the Association, to be informed as to the total expense they would 

 have to incur in laying on the gas ; and as, in a former instance, compensa- 

 tion was to have been paid for the carrying of materials across the Park, the 

 Committee considered it advisable that this should be ascertained before any 

 outlay is commenced. " I have the honour to be, Sir, 



" Your obedient Servant, 

 (Signed) " J. P. Gassiot." 



" To the Hon. C. Gore, Chief Commissioner 

 of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests, Land Revenue." 



10. Mr. Gore to Mr. Gassiot. 



" Office of Woods, &c., June 18, 1855. 

 " Sir, — In reply to your letter of the 12th instant, I have to inform you, 

 that, provided the gas pipes are laid down as nearly as possible in the direc- 

 tion of the footpath leading from Mr. Fuller's Farm Premises to the Obser- 

 vatory in the Old Deer Park, as requested by you on behalf of the Kew Com- 

 mittee, I am ready to grant the permission sought on payment of an annual 

 acknowledgment of one shilling. 



" As regards the compensation to be made to the tenant of the Park, I 

 am informed that if the works are not proceeded with until October next, 

 and completed without interruption, and to the satisfaction of Mr. Clutton, 

 the Crown Receiver, he will not require any compensation ; and as Mr. Clut- 

 ton has been informed by the Superintendent of the Observatory that the 

 pipes will not be required to be laid down until the latter part of the year, 

 I presume that the Committee will not object to accede to this arrangement. 



" I am, Sir, 



" Your obedient Servant, 

 (Signed) " Charles Gore." 



" J. P. Gassiot, Esq." 



