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COUNCIL FOR 1899. 
been a hard working and generous member of the Council, 
always ready to preside at our gatherings, and assist with 
practical advice in the management of the Garden and 
Buildings; he had also enriched the collections by numerous 
valuable donations. 
An interesting and extremely artistic Tablet has been 
placed upon Queen Margaret’s Gateway at the Exhibition 
end of Bootham, and your Committee desire to express the 
thanks of the Society to Mr. Brierley, who designed the 
Tablet, and to Messrs. Longden & Co., of Sheffield, who 
modelled and cast it without making any charge beyond the 
actual money out of pocket. 
The Council are very desirous that similar Tablets should 
be placed upon each of the Bars, and every other building of 
historical interest, giving a short epitome of the distinctive 
historical events with which they are associated. It can 
hardly be expected that this Society should bear the expense, 
which is considerable, but they would be willing to co-operate 
with the Corporation in preparing the inscription, if the city 
authorities would bear the cost of making and fixing Tablets. 
The Council would again appeal to the owners of property 
adjoining the Bar Walls in Bootham and Marygate to evince 
a public spirit by allowing such houses, many of which are far 
from sanitary, to be gradually removed, and the Wall exposed 
to the road. If owners are not prepared to make the present 
sacrifice in the rents, the Council would venture to suggest 
that a devise to the Philosophical Society or the York 
Corporation for the purpose of removal would meet the case. 
The Council recommends the Rev. W. Haworth as Vice- 
President in the place of Major J. A. Barstow deceased, and 
Mr. W. H. Brierley, the Rev. E. S. Carter, and Messrs. 
W. H. Cobb, J. W. Cudworth, and Herbert Leetham as 
members of Council, in the place of the Rev. W. Haworth 
and of Sir C. A. Milward, Messrs. E. R. Dodsworth, J. Back¬ 
house, and Geo. Wilson, who retire by rotation. 
