December 1791

The said Committee Report

That in pursuance of the Order of Referrence to this
Committee Vizt. "To treat with Mr William Staines< no role > the Contractor for
keeping the Carriage Way of the St. James's Haymarket in repair
respecting his present Contract with the Justices for Middlesex and
Westminster ; and also Advertize for Proposals, and to Contract with
the requisite Workmen for Paving the same, and to do all other matters
and things in the Execution thereof as shall appear to be fit and necessary"
the said Committee took an accurate view of the Haymarket with the
assistance of Mr Rogers the County Surveyor and found the Pavement
thereof in a very indifferent state, Whereupon the Committee desired Mr
Staines the Contractor for keeping the Pavement of the Saint James's
Haymarket in repair to attend and having informed him that the
Committee had found the Pavement in a very bad condition that it was
the wish of the Committee that the Haymarket should be Paved with
Aberdeen Granite Stone, that if he was to fulfill his Contract and put the
Pavement in sufficient and proper Repair it would be a very heavy Expence
to him, and having asked him whether he had any Proposals to make to
the Committee he said that he would leave it to any three Persons to
determine what Allowance he ought and should make to the Magistrates
instead of Sufficiently repairing the Pavement of the Haymarket upon their
consenting to annul his present Contract, that one Person should be
named by the Committee, and one by Mr Staines and that the two
Persons so to be named, should have the Appointment of the third Person,
which Proposal the Committee agreed to, and appointed Mr Rogers the
County Surveyor on their part and Mr Staines named Mr Delight of
Temple Place Surrey on his part, That the Referrees having met
awarded that Mr Staines should pay to the said Magistrates the Sum of.