19 



£ s. d. 



New Iron work-shed 210 



Repairing slip on Canal-bank .... 207 19 H 

 Re-erection of iron-and-glass house in 



North Gardens 295 2 1 



Walks in North Gardens 45 7 2 



£758 9 2 



A large work-shed for the use of the painters and 

 mechanics in winter and in bad weather has long been a 

 much-needed addition to the Society's establishment. 

 A convenient site for it having been found in the 

 eastern corner of the North Gardens, the Council, in 

 the autumn of 1878, arranged for its erection by Messrs. 

 Main, of Glasgow, at a contract-price of £210 0^. Od. 

 This amount was paid in 1879 and charged to the extra- 

 ordinary expenditure of that year. The building has been 

 found to answer the purpose for which it was intended in 

 every way. 



The long-continued rains of the summer and autumn of 

 1879 caused a slip to appear on the north bank of the 

 Canal, at the western extremity of the North Gardens. 

 The Society having agreed with the Regent's Canal Com- 

 pany, when the bridge was built in 1872, to keep the 

 north bank in order, were called upon by the Company to 

 repair this slip. This the Council accordingly proceeded 

 to do by taking out the slipped clay and burning it into 

 ballast, which they considered to be a more economical 

 plan than having the clay carted away, as a large quantity 

 of ballast was required for the new road and paths in 

 this part of the Gardens. After taking out about a third 

 part of the slipped clay, it became evident, from the 

 material which presented itself, that the slip was not a 

 new one, but an old slip that had been imperfectly re- 

 paired, and on inquiry it was found that such had been 

 really the case. The Council accordingly gave orders that 

 the repair of the slip should not be further proceeded with, 

 leaving the question open for future arrangement between 

 the Society and the Canal Company, who still maintain 

 the Society's liability. 



The expenditure on the repair of the slip in 1879 was 

 £207 195. lie?., besides which the sum of £45 7*- 2c?. 

 was devoted to the new walks and roads in the North 

 Gardens. 



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