Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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Image 530 of 69627th August 1730


All which they in the Most Dukfull and Humble
manner Submitt to his Maties princely wisdom & goodness
By order of the Court of the Generall Sessions of
the peace & Oyer & Terminer for the County of
Middx held the twenty Sixth day of August
1730

Wm. Cowper< no role > Chairman

P Adjorn Jovis 27o. die Augusti 1730

Order touching the
Viewing and repairing
of Brentford Bridge }

Informacon being given unto this Court that a publick Bridge
called Brentford Bridge in this County (which hath been Usually and
ought to be repaired at the charge of the Inhabitants of this County)
is very much eat of repair, and that it [..] is necessary that the
Same Should be forthwith repaired, It is Ordered by this Court that
it be And It is hereby recomended & referred unto James Clitherow< no role > Esqr.
Sr. John Gouson< no role > Knt . Sr. William Ogborne< no role > Knt. Henry Barker< no role > William
Cotesworth Thomas West< no role > Philip Willshire< no role > Charles Lockyer Thomas
Milner John Mercer< no role > James Harrison< no role > Richard Gifford< no role > & William
Ellis
< no role > Esqrs . Justices of the peace for this County or any three or more
of them as Committee to assemble & meet together, and to take
to their assistance Such able Workman or Workmen as they Shall
think fit, and to make a View of the Said Bridge, And to see if the
Same is out of repaire, and if any & what repaires are wanting
and necessary to be done thereto, And if it Shall appeare upon
Such View that the Said Bridge is out of repaire Then to inquire and
make an estimate of what it will cost to repaire the Same in
a Substantiall & workman like manner, And to receive the
proposalls and estimates of workmen in relacon there unto, And
the Said Committee of Justices are hereby authorized and
empowered to employ Such able Workman or Workmen, as they
Shall think proper Effectually to repaire the Said Bridge in a
Substantiall and Workman like manner and upon Such termes
and for Such Sume of money as the Said Committee Shall
think reasonable, and the Said Committee of Justices are
hereby desired to report an account of their proceedings touching
the premisses unto the Court of General Quarter or General
Sessions of the peace for this County, to the end that Such
further Order may be made in relacon to the premisses as
occasion may require,




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