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<p n="2502">Continued Thursday <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20210_date189">April 27th. 1797</rs>
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<p n="2503"> <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20210_geo265">Bridewell Precinct</rs>
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April 10th. 1797</p>
<p n="2504">Sir</p>
<p n="2505">We beg you will return our thanks to the House<lb></lb>
Committee for their communication of the 5th instant,<lb></lb>
respecting the mode of filling up the Old Sewer; which,<lb></lb>
though very imperfect, we transmitted without loss of<lb></lb>
time to Mr Wright, <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20210_occ3303">Surveyor to the Commissioners of<lb></lb>
Sewers;</rs>
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and it will certainly give us great pleasure<lb></lb>
to have a Job, so material to our comfort and security,<lb></lb>
effectually performedAt the same time, we think<lb></lb>
it fair to apprize the Governors, that we do not think<lb></lb>
ourselves liable to the consequences that may arise to our<lb></lb>
Houses, from any future failure of that part of the old<lb></lb>
Sewer which is now about to be filled up and abandoned</p>
<p n="2506">All the precaution we may be disposed to adopt, we<lb></lb>
shall consider as purely gratuitous, and voluntary</p>
<p n="2507">The Covenant in our Leases to uphold our Houses,<lb></lb>
which the Committee Seem so fond of repeating, can have<lb></lb>
no more reference to an event of that kind, than it would<lb></lb>
have to an Earthquake or any other extraordinary convulsion<lb></lb>
of Nature.We built our Houses with a Regard only to<lb></lb>
the Sewer then existing under a Parliamentary guarentee<lb></lb>
or direction, (29 Geo 2d) that it was to be maintained and<lb></lb>
kept in repair. The demolition or abandonment of that<lb></lb>
Sewer and the erection of a new one, in a different situation<lb></lb>
were not in comtemplation when we contracted to Build our<lb></lb>
Houses, but are circumstances perfectly Novel and have<lb></lb>
been forced upon us, greatly to our annoyance and injury,<lb></lb>
by an imperious necessity, arising from the injudicous<lb></lb>
and defective construction of the original Sewer; contrary<lb></lb>
to a solemn public assurance (dated May 18th. 1779) held<lb></lb>
out to us, as an inducement to build: Vizt that the<lb></lb>
Sewer had been compleated and executed in the best</p>
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