that the said Richard Holland< no role > be discharged from his said Agreement
and Contract and that Mr. Wood whose proposal for performing the
Bricklayers Work in the said Repair (and who has also Contracted for the
Carpenters Work) being the next proposal agreeable to the Committees
advertisement be agreed with in respect of the same That under an Order
of the said Committee the Clerk of the said Committee has got all the said
Articles of Agreement Executed on the part of the said Contractors and
their respective Sureties That Mr. Rogers the Committees Surveyor has
found himself impeded in the prosecution of the Plan of Repairs agreed
to by this Committee and Confirmed by an Order of Session as in the
subsequentplanof this Report is mentioned (Vizt.)

That having taken a View (under Order of the Committee)
of the Building and Boundary Walls of New Prison in general and
of the Boundary or Garden Wall on the South Side of the Garden
belonging to the said Prison in particular It is his Opinion that
the Internal Buildings as well as the encompassing walls have been
built of the same materials and at the same time and that all the said
Erections appear much older than any of the adjoining Buildings that
are private property From whence he humbly submits that it may be
reasonably concluded the said Boundary or Garden Wall is part of the
Original Boundary Wall of and belonging to the said Prison, That
Mr. Nightingale a Carpenter of St. John Street has erected a Messuage
and Workshop of Timber with Lights therein to the said Garden on
the said Boundary or Garden Wall and that therefore the Alterations
and repairs intended to be made in the said Prison (and which the
said Mr. Rogers is now carrying in under order of the Committee)
cannot be made according to the Plans delivered in by him and
approved by the Committee unless that part of the said Boundary
Wall on which the said Mr. Nightingale has so Erected his Timber
Building as aforesaid be taken down the doing of which will
necessarily oblige the said Mr Nightingale also to pull down his
said Timber Building But if it be the Pleasure of the Committee
to wave their supposed right to that part of the Wall on which the