9th September 1773

the next Proposal agreeable to the Committees advertisement be agreed with
in respect of the same, That under 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 subsequent part of 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 adjoin-
-ing 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's Street has Erected a Messuage
and Work Shop 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 on under order of the Committee) cannot be made according to
the Plans deliver'd 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
waive their supposed right to that part of the Wall on which the said
Timber Building is laid the Repairs and Alterations may still be
executed by running up a new and Sufficient party Wall as Prescribed by
the Act of Parliament against the said Boundary or Garden Wall and Timber
Building on the Ground belonging to the said Prison but in that case
the Lights in the said Timber Building will of course be blocked or
Stopt up and the new building intended to be erected these as part of the
Prison will be rendered nine Inches less at least