Whereas the Council are seised in fee simple in possession free from incumbrances of the premises known as the Salvation Army Hall Queen Street, Rushden as delineated and coloured pink on the plan annexed hereto and are about to secure the demolition of the building erected on such land And Whereas the adjoining owner is seised in fee simple in possession free from incumbrances of the land delineated and coloured green on the said plan and has requested the Council to refrain from demolishing part of the wall of the salvation Army Hall aforementioned in order to provide support for the buildings erected by the adjoining owner upon his land And Whereas the Council have agreed to comply with such request upon the terms and conditions hereinafter appearing.

The agreement was for a sum of £120 to be paid by the adjoining owner for the Council to leave the wall standing. The Council would also do specific works:

Level off and clean down the wall to a height of twelve feet for a length of approximately fifty feet and to a height of six feet for a length of thirty feet. Provide and fix approximately eighty feet of coping to the wall. Render in cement the western face of the wall.

The adjoining owner was also to pay a rent for 21 years (amount not specified).