250 Mrcction of a 'Boundary Hailing. [Dec. 



The CllAlEMAN announced that Dr. Wise had compounded for his suh- 

 scriptions by the payment of lis- 230, and Mr. Alex. Grant, on payment of 

 Es. 332. 



The Chaieman said — 



It would be in the recollection of Members of the Society that at the 

 Meeting in November last year the Society sanctioned a proposal of the 

 Council for the demolition of the present boundary wall in Park Street and 

 the erection in its place of a dwarf wall and railings, with two gatcAvays and 

 a durwan's lodge, at a cost of Es. 4,469. Arrangements were accordingly 

 made for putting the work in hand, but the Council found some difficulty 

 in selecting any really suitable railing for the site within the cost sanction- 

 ed. Meanwhile it was ascertained that the Municipality desired to obtain 

 a slip of the Society's ground to improve the approaches of Park Street. 

 In this view, and as one of the jjrincipal objects of erecting a railing was to 

 beautify the approach to Park Street, it was thought that the Municipality, 

 on receiving the ground required, would be willing to bear part of the ex- 

 pense of putting up the new railings, and with their help a handsome railing 

 could be put up at a less cost to the Society than an ordinary railing would 

 have been. 



Informal proposals made to the Chairman of the Municipality on this 

 basis were favourably entertained by him, and the Engineer of the Corpora- 

 tion was instructed to prepare a design and estimate for the railing and 

 gateways required by the Society. 



On the 20th August the Secretary of the Society received a note from 

 Mr. Metcalfe forwarding copies of a very handsome design for the railing, 

 and stating that its estimated cost would be Es. 9,370 of which the Muni- 

 cipality would pay Es. 2,000. 



As the share of the expense, amounting to Es. 7,370, the Society was 

 thus expected to pay, was considerably in excess of the sum sanctioned, it was 

 represented to Mr. Metcalfe that the Society could not possibly afford so 

 much, and it was hoped that a less expensive design could be fixed upon. 



In September last, when Park Street was under repairs and arrange- 

 ments had already been made by the Municij^ality to widen the roadway 

 by narrowing the footpath, the Municipality were anxious to take imme- 

 diate possession of the strip of land required to widen the footpath, and 

 the Secretary to the Corporation wrote stating that the Commissioners had 

 under consideration certain proposals for improving the entrance into Park 

 Street from Chowringhee, and forwarded a plan showing a strip of land be- 

 longing to the Society, which the Commissioners wished to purchase. The 

 size of the strip was estimated at 8 chittacks and its value at Es. 255/9, at 

 the rate of Es. 500 per cottah, but as the Commissioners wished to have 



