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May Session 1740
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Report of the Comittee
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Concerning Plans and
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Proposalls for the rebuilding
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In Obedience To the Order hereunto annexed we whose hands
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are hereunto Selt five of his Majesties Justices of the peace within
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mentioned (being a Quorum) to Employ an Engineer or
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Skilfull persons to lay before the Said Comittee Such method
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plans and proposalls as might be most proper for rebuilding
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with Stone and to take an Account or Estimate
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of the Charge thereof your said Comittee did employ Mr. Charles
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Labelys a Skilfull Engineer (and Who now is Engineer to the
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Commissioners) who having Carefully viewed the situation of
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the present Bridge at
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has Prepared and laid before
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your Committee a plan or Design for rebuilding the Said Bridge
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partly of Brick and partly of Stone and an Explanation
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thereof as also an Estimate of the Expence of building the Same
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which plan Explanation and Estimate are hereunto annexed
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and it appearing to your said Comittee that the said Estimate
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was made upon a Supposition that
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Should be only
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twenty two feet wide in the Clear Your Comittee were of
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opinion that
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Should be twenty five feet wide in the
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for the benefit of foot Passengers as well as Carriages &
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Horsemen the doing of which will in the Opinion of Mr.
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Labelye Increase the Expence of building the said Bridge about
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One hundred pounds over and above the said Estimate hereunto
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annexed, which your said Committee conceives will be a proper
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and approve of the said Plan and Design and are of
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opinion that
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may be built according to the said
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Design for the Sum of one thousand two hundred pounds and
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that an Advertizement Should be published in one or more of the
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News papers to give publick notice of a day time and place for your
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said Comittee to meet to receive proposalls from the Several
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Workmen who will untertake to build the said Bridge according
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to the said plan, which with the Explanation thereof ought to be
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Deposited with the
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or Some other proper person
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for the inspection of Such Workmen as may be willing to
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Contract for the building thereof, And that it Should also be
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mentioned in the Said Advertizement that your Comittee will give
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full Satisfaction to any Person or Persons Who Shall undertake to
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build the Said Bridge that Punctual payment Shall be made
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as the Work is carried on, That your Comittee cannot make any
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Report touching the other matters mentioned in the Said Orders
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because Sr.
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Thomas Reynell
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James Clitherow
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& Robert
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Hind
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did not attend your Said Comittee altho Summoned to
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make appear what orders and Directions they or any of them had
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given for the Repairs of Chertsey or
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, All Which your
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Comittee Submitts to the Judgment of this Court Dated this 16th. day of May
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1740.
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John Milner
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Ayloffe
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