May Session 1740

Report of the Comittee
Concerning Plans and
Proposalls for the rebuilding
of Brentford Bridge }

In Obedience To the Order hereunto annexed we whose hands
are hereunto Selt five of his Majesties Justices of the peace within
mentioned (being a Quorum) to Employ an Engineer or
Skilfull persons to lay before the Said Comittee Such method
plans and proposalls as might be most proper for rebuilding
Brentford Bridge with Stone and to take an Account or Estimate
of the Charge thereof your said Comittee did employ Mr. Charles
Labelys a Skilfull Engineer (and Who now is Engineer to the Westminster Bridge
Commissioners) who having Carefully viewed the situation of
the present Bridge at Brentford has Prepared and laid before
your Committee a plan or Design for rebuilding the Said Bridge
partly of Brick and partly of Stone and an Explanation
thereof as also an Estimate of the Expence of building the Same
which plan Explanation and Estimate are hereunto annexed
and it appearing to your said Comittee that the said Estimate
was made upon a Supposition that the Bridge Should be only
twenty two feet wide in the Clear Your Comittee were of
opinion that the Bridge Should be twenty five feet wide in the
Clear for the benefit of foot Passengers as well as Carriages &
Horsemen the doing of which will in the Opinion of Mr.
Labelye Increase the Expence of building the said Bridge about
One hundred pounds over and above the said Estimate hereunto
annexed, which your said Committee conceives will be a proper
Bridge and approve of the said Plan and Design and are of
opinion that the Bridge may be built according to the said
Design for the Sum of one thousand two hundred pounds and
that an Advertizement Should be published in one or more of the
News papers to give publick notice of a day time and place for your
said Comittee to meet to receive proposalls from the Several
Workmen who will untertake to build the said Bridge according
to the said plan, which with the Explanation thereof ought to be
Deposited with the Clerk of the peace or Some other proper person
for the inspection of Such Workmen as may be willing to
Contract for the building thereof, And that it Should also be
mentioned in the Said Advertizement that your Comittee will give
full Satisfaction to any Person or Persons Who Shall undertake to
build the Said Bridge that Punctual payment Shall be made
as the Work is carried on, That your Comittee cannot make any
Report touching the other matters mentioned in the Said Orders
because Sr. Thomas Reynell< no role > Baronett James Clitherow< no role > & Robert
Hind Esquires did not attend your Said Comittee altho Summoned to
make appear what orders and Directions they or any of them had
given for the Repairs of Chertsey or Brentford Bridge , All Which your
Comittee Submitts to the Judgment of this Court Dated this 16th. day of May
1740.

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