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REPORT OF THE 
the Yorkshire Insurance Company agreeing to advance the 
required amount on mortgage at five per cent. 
Having obtained possession, the Council proceeded to convert 
a portion of the ground floor of the building into a lodge for the 
gatekeeper. This was effected at a very trifling cost; and 
having placed the remainder of the house in tenantable repair, 
they let it at a rent more than adequate to meet the interest 
which the Society will be called upon to pay. By obtaining 
possession of this property, the Society became the tenants, under 
the Corporation, of the garden attached to the house, and also of 
the portion of the City Bamparts and Walls extending towards 
the Water Tower. This will enable the Society to throw open 
its grounds very advantageously in that direction, and to extend 
them to what naturally appears their proper boundary. This 
improvement it is the intention of the Council to carry out 
without delay; and as the greater portion of the work will be 
performed by labourers usually in the employment of the Society 
the cost will not be great. The Council, therefore, conceive that 
they may justly congratulate the Society on having obtained by 
this transaction—though paying the full market value of the 
house-—advantages far more than equivalent to the outlay, 
especially when the saving of the costly erection of a lodge is 
taken into consideration. The whole of the expenses incurred 
will be found stated in the Treasurer’s report. 
The only other object on which the Society has been called 
to expend any large sum of money in building , during the past 
year, is the restoration of the lower portion of the Hospi- 
tium, which was stated in the last report to be in progress. 
The work is now completed : the lately ruined portion of the 
building has been repaired, roofed-in, and glazed, and by the 
removal of a brick partition, this noble apartment is shown in 
its original dimensions. 
Within this space the large and interesting collection of 
Homan Altars, Tombs, Monumental Stones, and other relics 
belonging to the Society, has been duly arranged. The fragments 
of Saxon, Norman, and English Sculpture likewise, which 
had long occupied the building in a very confused state, have 
been disposed in chronological order, chiefly by the aid of 
