9th December 1773

from Midsummer 1725 to Christmas 1729 which Time the Accounts
of the Treasurers were last past, it was found that the Money in hand and
the Toll since Midsummer 1725 amounted to £479 out of which had been
paid in part of Mrs Offley's Demand £22..8s..11d a further part of £20 that
there had been laid out in repair within the said time £409..0s..6d of which
there was still remaining due and unsatisfyed a Debt to Mr Brown
the Paviour of £78..3s..0d that the Person employed by the said Treasurer
had been allow'd a Salary of Twenty Pounds per Annum which for the
Time aforesaid amounted to eighty eight Pounds eleven Shillings of which
Sixty seven Pounds eleven Shillings had been only paid & there remained
a Debt of twenty one Pounds due to the present Collector; that an Allowance
of ten Pounds per Annum is charged in the Account for a Person called
the Treasurers agent amounting for the Time aforesaid to Forty five Pounds
of which thirty seven Pounds twelve Shillings & seven pence had only been
paid seven Pounds seven Shillings and five Pence remaining therefore due
to him; and that there was one guinea P Annum charged in the said
Account as payable to the Clerk of the Peace which was not satisfyed
amounting to four Pounds fourteen Shillings and six pence so that there
remained a Debt on the said Toll at Christmas then last of one hundred
eleven Pounds four Shillings and eleven pence. And the said Comittee
further Reported that upon finding so large a Debt on the Haymarket they
took into consideration not only what method might be taken for more
effectually repairing the same for the future but also what had been the
cause of its bad condition and the decrease of the Revenue and found that
proper care had been wanting in preserving the limits and extent of the
Haymarket as described by the 8th & 9th of William the 3d which describes it in
a easy exact manner as follows (vizt) "And for preventing all disputes
"concerning the extent of the said Street Be it further enacted by the
"Authority aforesaid. That it shall be construed to extend in Length from
"the Old Toll Post at the upper End of the Haymarket over against a house
"formerly called Coventry House, to the Phenix Inn at the lower end of the said
"Haymarket and the House over against it and in breadth from the Kennel
"running by the Houses on the East side running by the Houses on the West side