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REPORT OF THE 
Under this Agreement the Baths were regularly supplied 
with water up to the commencement of the past year. 
In the spring of 1845, the Yorkshire Philosophical Society 
purchased the rights of the Swimming Bath Company in 
the Baths and under their Agreement, and at some period 
between that time and December 1848, the Old Water¬ 
works Company ceased to exist, having transferred their 
interests to the New Water Company, and after such transfer 
the rent of £5 was duly paid pursuant to the stipula¬ 
tions of the Agreement to the New Water Company, and 
received by them without any objection being raised from the 
31st day of December 1848, to the 31st day of March 1850. 
In the spring of last year, however, the New Company (having 
transferred their works from Lendal Ferry to a distance from 
York), and being applied to by the Secretaries to affix the 
necessary communications from their new main pipes to 
the Baths, gave the Society notice, that they did not consider 
themselves bound by the Agreement of 1837, and that any 
supply of Water to the Baths must be under a new Agreement. 
This led to a Meeting between a Committee appointed by the 
Council, and the Directors of the Water Company, at which the 
latter repudiated altogether the recited Agreement of 1837, 
but (subject to the future settlement of the rights of the parties) 
they offered to supply the Baths (only) for £30 per annum, 
leaving the charge for the Fountains, Mr. Baines’s House, the 
Lodge, and the other requirements of the gardens (which had 
always been up to that time supplied at a fixed rate of £6. 8s. 
per annum for the whole) altogether uncertain. 
To these terms, temporary only and highly disadvantageous 
as they were, the Council could not agree, and without relin¬ 
quishing what they conceived to be the rights of the Society 
under the Agreement of 1837, it became a matter of necessity, 
that immediate steps should be taken, to procure the per¬ 
manent supply of the requisite quantity of water. With this 
view estimates were obtained, from which it appeared that the 
Society could supply itself with the whole of the water required, 
at a cost including interest of Capital expended and other pay¬ 
ments of from £20 to £25 per annum, and the Council au- 
