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some power of investigating it, and approving or disap¬ 
proving it. 
Mr. J. C. Broad said he quite agreed with Mr. Cowie as to 
allowing a man to charge what he thought proper, hut at the 
same time he thought it was far preferable to employ a man 
who had been employed in these premises for seven or eight 
years to give in an estimate, and if the Committee considered 
it reasonable to accept it. That was far preferable to going 
to Bromley to employ a man. 
Mr. Goiving said the matter was in a complete nutshell. 
The Council had ordered that an estimate should be given 
for the necessary repairs, and he believed that such an 
estimate had been given and gone into by. the house 
committee. 
Mr. Cowie said he had never seen it. If the Council made 
him responsible as a member of the Committee, he must have 
something to say in the bargain. 
The Chairman said it did not seem to follow from the 
minute that one man only was to give an estimate, but there 
might be twenty estimates, but he did not think it was 
necessary to proceed further in the matter. 
Mr. Silvester said he did not, see any objection to Mr. 
Cowie sending his man up from Bromley. 
The Secretary stated that he had informed the man who 
usually did the work that the repairs were only to last till the 
remainder of the lease, which had only two or three years to 
run. The man had alwavs taken his instructions, and had 
not put the College to a shilling expense more than was 
necessary. 
Mr. Silvester urged that the Council should proceed with 
the business of the meeting. 
The Secretary said the next subject was the door-plate. 
He was sorry to have to announce that it had been removed, 
by some persons, from the front door. Two other houses in 
the neighbourhood had suffered from similar depredations, 
and in Bedford Bow several door-plates had been taken away. 
He w r as up at six o’clock in the morning, and discovered the 
loss. The police stated that they would make every inquiry, 
and the result was that two men were now in custody, and 
were to be brought up for examination the next day; but as 
to where the plate was, no information had been obtained. 
The question was what should be done ? 
Mr. Hartley suggested that they should have another 
plate. 
Mr. Silvester thought the matter had better be referred to 
the house committee. 
