COUNCIL FOR 1839. 
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A desire has been often expressed by individual Members 
for the enlargement of the Garden, by including a portion of 
the land purchased from the Crown ; and at the last Annual 
Meeting the Council were directed to alter the line of road 
into Mary gate, so as to render it possible^ at some future 
period, to secure the hospitium within the general boundary 
of the pleasure ground. This has been done, a new road 
has been made, nearly in a direct line from Lendal to the 
lower end of Marygate, between the Hospitium and the river, 
at a cost, including some contingent expenses, of <^110. 
The property on the Manor Shore has in consequence been 
relet, subject to this new arrangement. The grounds of the 
Swimming Bath Company have been thus diminished, and 
their rental is reduced accordingly. The portion of ground 
allotted to the Gateway House has been in a corresponding 
degree augmented; and the Council have fixed the ground 
rent to be paid by Professor Phillips on a term of thirty years, 
at £10; and they have the pleasure to report that the house 
is completely finished. There still remain unlet some portions 
of ground on the Manor Shore, and the income derived from 
that property is for this year less than usual, owing to the 
changes of occupation, allowances to tenants, and total loss 
of rent from the Hospitium. 
Unfortunately the plans in agitation at the beginning of 
1839 for restoring the Hospitium have not taken effect; the 
prospect of founding therein a School of Art has been aban¬ 
doned ; and as only a very small part of the subscriptions 
offered for the restoration of the Edifice, has been placed at the 
disposal of the Society for the purpose of repairing it, and 
saving it from farther decay, the Council have suspended all 
further proceedings until the pleasure of this meeting should 
be known. 
