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thorized the purchase of a Steam Engine and Machinery and the 
erection and formation of buildings and works adapted to the 
objects in view. 
Under these circumstances the necessary works were pro¬ 
secuted with as little loss of time as possible, and had not a delay 
occurred on the part of those employed to provide the Engine, the 
Society might have been enabled to supply the water required 
during a considerable portion of the Bathing Season, and for 
other purposes. This, however, under the circumstances, was 
found to be impracticable, and previous to the erection of the 
machinery and the completion of the works, the Council were in¬ 
duced to allow the negociations with the Water Company to be 
re-opened, and it was found that they were then willing to supply 
all the water required for the Baths, Fountains, Mr. Baines’s 
House, the Lodge, and the various requirements of the Gardens, 
for an annual sum of £25. After much deliberation the Council 
authorized the acceptance of this offer (without prejudice to the 
existing rights of the Society under the Agreement of 1837,) 
having already secured for the Society the means, at any future 
time, of readily supplying the water required for the Baths, &c., 
independently of the Water Company, should any circumstances 
or considerations render such a step expedient. 
The Engine is still in the maker’s hands, and it has been 
ascertained that the Society would sustain little or no loss 
should a sale of it be considered desirable. 
The total expenditure of every other kind in relation to the 
Baths exceeds the income derived from the same source during 
the year 1850 by £75 14s. 6d., and forms one of the only two 
items of extraordinary expenditure of the current year. 
The other item of extraordinary expenditure, £71 9s. 10d., 
has been incurred in connection with the new entrance to the 
Gardens from Marygate, and the Society will, no doubt, justly 
appreciate the very great improvement effected in that part of 
their grounds. By thus restoring to the Museum Grounds the an¬ 
cient boundary of the Abbey Close, we offer to convenient inspec¬ 
tion structures, which rank among the earliest of our Monastic 
remains, and guard from further injury and decay all that is left 
of that gateway, which was the principal entrance to the 
