102 Bepairs of the Society's Premises. [AtrcursT, 



1. The Louse to be thoroughly rej^airecl inside and out. 



2. The rooms on the ground floor to be laid with asphalte. The pas- 

 sages about the entrance and staircase to be paved with Chunar stone. 



3. Two rooms on the ground floor to be convei-ted into a retiring 

 room and lavatory for the convenience o£ Members. 



4. The sky-light over the staircase to be enlarged and improved. 



5. The meeting-room and the rooms round it to be coloured. 



6. The floors of the three rooms, proposed to be devoted to the Libra- 

 ry, to be propped up from below by iron pillars. 



7. The staircase to be improved by the substitution of iron raihngs 

 and a substantial mahogany hand-rail for the present ones. 



8. The present portico, being very narrow and inconvenient, to be 

 demolished, and a new enlarged portico to be built symmetrical with the 

 entrance doorway, to which a new entrance door is to be put. 



9. Gas to be laid on in the entrance and public rooms. 

 The cost of these repairs and alterations will be — 



General repairs and alterations, including asphalte for lower floor, fit- 

 ting up retiring room, enlarging sky-light, propping up Library rooms, 



colouring meeting-room, and other minor items, Rs. 8,980 



Alterations to Staircase, 1,480 



New Portico and Entrance-door, 3,150 



13,610 

 Gas and Fittings, 2,342 



Total, Rs. 15,952 



Messrs. Mackintosh, Burn have undertaken to execute the works in- 

 cluded under the first three items for Rs. 13,000, so that the total cost 

 will thus be reduced to Rs. 15,342. 



Besides these repairs and alterations which are necessary and urgent, 

 the Committee of Repairs have recommended that the present boundary 

 wall and godowns in Park Street should be demolished, and rej)laced by a 

 neat half- wall and iron railing with two gateways and a durwan's lodge, 

 a new range of servants' houses and latrine being built at the back of the 

 house from the old materials. The cost of these alterations and additions 

 is estimated by Messrs. Mackintosh, Burn at Rs. 6,167. 



There is no doubt that these proposed alterations of the boundary wall 

 would be an immense improvement to the appearance of the Society's pre- 

 mises, and as the present boundary wall is in a very bad state, the godowns 

 inconvenient and useless, and there would in any case be the expense o£ 

 repairing them, which is estimated at Rs. 857, the Council consider that it 



