9th December 1773

and the said Committee are hereby empowered to accommodate, compromise
and determine the claim of right in the said Boundary Wall either by insisting
on the claim of the County therein and prosecuting the same: resigning all
right on the part of the County in the said Wall or any part thereof or otherwise
as to the said Committee shall sum meet.

Whereas a plan and Estimate of making the Reparations and Alterations
necessary to be done to Hicks Hall having been presented and Reported by the Committee
to whom the same was referred and approved by the Court It is Ordered that the
said plan and estimate be referred back to the Committee with Instructions to
consider of ways and means to raise a Sum of Money sufficient to defray
the Expence of carrying the same into Execution without the assistance of
Parliament

Whereas Mr Thomas Rogers< no role > the surveyor of the Repairs now carrying on
at New Prison was at the General Session of the Peace holden for this County
in September last ordered to take Mr Scott and another Surveyor to his Assistance
to view the Boundary Walls of New Prison and who were to report their Opinion
thereof And the said Mr Thomas Rogers< no role > having procured the Assistance
of the said Mr Scott and Mr Palmer another Surveyor who have viewed the
said Walls and reported their Opinion thereof It is new Ordered by the Court
that it be and the same is hereby referred to the Committee appointed to carry
into immediate Execution the Repair of New Prison and Clerkenwell Bridewell
to consider what pecuniary compensation shall be made to Messrs Scott &
Palmer for their Trouble as aforesaid And the Committee are hereby
empowered to order the Payment of the same.

Whereas at the General Session of the Peace holden for this County by Adjournt
on Friday the 17th of September last a Report being made from the Committee
appointed to carry into imediate Execution the Repair of New Prison and
Clerkenwell Bridewell in which it appearing that a Smelting House had
lately been erected on the East Boundary Wall belonging to the County Estate
at Clerkenwell which Erection was an Encroachment. It was then Ordered
by the Court that the proprietor thereof should have Notice given him by the
Clerk of the Peace to remove the same. Now the Clerk of the Peace reporting
that he had given Notice to the proprietor of the said Building accordingly
and that he has received a Memorial from Mr Crawford the Proprietor of the
said Building regarding the same It is Ordered that the said