The Treasurer was to make such repairs and alterations in the room as Thomas Brock...

The Treasurer was to make such repairs and alterations in the room as Thomas Brock should think proper for the more commodious fixing and keeping the records.

Upon reading the petition of Holme Burrowes, City Treasurer, for the past year, for a lease for ninety-nine years of a piece of ground, belonging to the Hospital of St. John Baptist, in Dee Lane, 34 yards long from east to west by 26 yards at the east end and 20 yards at the west, in order to make improvements but not to build houses, an order was made for viewing and reporting.

The petition of Holme Burrowes, Treasurer for the past year, was read stating that during his late Treasureship he purchased the inheritance of the shop in his holding with the house over it, fronting to the east side of Bridge Street. He desired to extend his shop to the line of the house and row above about two and a half feet to lighten his shop and better display his toys and goods. (ZA/B/4/201) He had raised this with the Mayor before the expiration of his office. No obstruction or inconvenience would arise. He prayed a grant to him and his heirs of the ground. It was granted on five shillings fine and a further ten shillings as a mulet for underbuilding without a grant.

Aldermen Egerton and Hesketh and Thomas Slaughter, Esq. were to be a committee to view the condition of the starting chair and distance chair on the Roodee and to report to Assembly on the cost of new chairs or stands of timber, brick or other materials at the starting and distance place to be larger and contain forty or fifty persons and what profit might be made by hiring places on race days (ZA/B/4/201v) and whether the Corporation should do this or lease out the land for the same. Plans and estimates were to be prepared at the cost of the Corporation.

Hugh McMillan, linendraper, was to be admitted to the freedom paying thirty pounds within one month.

Mr. Holme Burrowes, late Treasurer, might pay out of the balance of his accounts the balance of accounts due to Alderman Cotgreave, former Treasurer, and allowed him on passing his accounts as money disbursed by him for the use of the Corporation.

Upon reading the accounts of Mr. John Thomas with the Corporation for £150 paid to him for furnishing the Judges' apartments at Chester Castle during the Assizes, the accounts with the vouchers and an inventory were ordered to be filled in the Pentice Office.

Upon the prayer of the subscribers to the Charity School (ZA/B/4/202) without Northgate to have a grant of the school and land to Trustees for a Charity school to maintain and educate poor boys according to an order of Assembly, it was ordered to be granted reserving the right of the Mayor, Recorder and two senior Aldermen to be four of the trustees or governors.

The Trustees of the first district, named in an Act for repairing and widening the road from the Barrs at Boughton to Whitchurch, and thence to Newport, co. Salop, to Ivetsey Bank, co. Stafford, and thence to Castle Bromwich and Stonebridge in the parish of Hampton on Arden, co. Warwick, and from Castle Bromwich to Birmingham, or any seven or more of them might cause a turnpike to be erected across the road from Golborne to Chester at Great Boughton where a clockmaker's sign was called the striking man, and any gates thought proper.