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