Her Majesty’s Commissioners having had from the Ventilator-General his
report upon the state of ventilation in the apartments allotted to
them in the Treasury Chambers, are of opinion that the adoption of his
plans would involve very considerable expense, and would cause a delay
seriously prejudicial to the business of the Commission. Her Majesty’s
Commissioners, therefore, request that my lords will be pleased to
dispense with the services of the Ventilator-General in this case, as
granted under their lordships’ minute, referred to in the margin, and
instead thereof, that they will pass a minute authorising the
attendance of the Treasury carpenter to repair a line in a window,
which does not at present open with all the facility desirable.
By Order of the Board.
(Signed) AUGUSTUS AIGULET.
These labours concluded the third day’s proceedings.
The fourth day was occupied in receiving counter instructions from the
Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury in accordance with the
Rotten Row Board’s minute, No. 2—and in communicating with the
official carpenter. The result was, that this humble individual
superseded in half an hour the threatened six months’ labour of the
Ventilator-General.
At its fifth meeting, the Royal Commission drew up a list of witnesses
to be examined. The sixth day was wholly occupied in granting the
summonses, and as the Board has not yet finished examining its first
witness, the report will not, it is expected, be ready for the
Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in May, 1851.