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Monday 27th April 1835
Went with Mr Benson to fix upon the alteration of the Farm House and old buildings at Dilston High Town. The Tenant wishes to have something more done to the House than I had thought necessary, on which account if it should exceed the sum included in the year’s estimate, he is to pay the surplus himself. Returned the Agreements for Mineral Grants to the Moor Master to deliver to the Parties, requesting him to obtain their signatures to similar copies of Agreements, to be deposited here or at Greenwich.
In compliance with the Board’s Minute, requiring information on various subjects connected with Scremerston Railway, I found Mr Weatherley’s Plan of it in the Office, but not knowing the Portions of it which were purchased from the Commissioners of the Berwick Pier etc, I thought it best to write to him, now in Hexham, and ask him to call at the Office, whereby reference to the Plans & Papers connected with it, he might be able to supply the necessary information. If he should not, I shall be obliged to send the Plan to someone on the spot to have the matter investigated & the portions which it is wished to distinguish, marked accurately upon it. After being released from the Office, I rode through the Dipton Woods where instant attention to the Roads is required, lest in leading out the Wood, damage be done to the newly planted Plots in seeking an easier passage. I was glad to find that the Parcels planted last year & this, are taking very well, in spite of this frosty & ungenial season. The shelter of the surrounding Woods gives them an advantage in this respect.
