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<p n="1373">May Session 1740</p>
<p n="1374"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Report of the Comittee<lb></lb>
Concerning Plans and<lb></lb>
Proposalls for the rebuilding<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1552">Brentford Bridge</rs>
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In Obedience To the Order hereunto annexed we whose hands<lb></lb>
are hereunto Selt five of his Majesties Justices of the peace within<lb></lb>
mentioned (being a Quorum) to Employ an Engineer or<lb></lb>
Skilfull persons to lay before the Said Comittee Such method<lb></lb>
plans and proposalls as might be most proper for rebuilding<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1553">Brentford Bridge</rs>
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with Stone and to take an Account or Estimate<lb></lb>
of the Charge thereof your said Comittee did employ Mr. Charles<lb></lb>
Labelys a Skilfull Engineer (and Who now is Engineer to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1554">Westminster Bridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Commissioners) who having Carefully viewed the situation of<lb></lb>
the present Bridge at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1555">Brentford</rs>
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has Prepared and laid before<lb></lb>
your Committee a plan or Design for rebuilding the Said Bridge<lb></lb>
partly of Brick and partly of Stone and an Explanation<lb></lb>
thereof as also an Estimate of the Expence of building the Same<lb></lb>
which plan Explanation and Estimate are hereunto annexed<lb></lb>
and it appearing to your said Comittee that the said Estimate<lb></lb>
was made upon a Supposition that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1556">the Bridge</rs>
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Should be only<lb></lb>
twenty two feet wide in the Clear Your Comittee were of<lb></lb>
opinion that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1557">the Bridge</rs>
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Should be twenty five feet wide in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1558">Clear</rs>
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for the benefit of foot Passengers as well as Carriages &<lb></lb>
Horsemen the doing of which will in the Opinion of Mr.<lb></lb>
Labelye Increase the Expence of building the said Bridge about<lb></lb>
One hundred pounds over and above the said Estimate hereunto<lb></lb>
annexed, which your said Committee conceives will be a proper<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1559">Bridge</rs>
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and approve of the said Plan and Design and are of<lb></lb>
opinion that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1560">the Bridge</rs>
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may be built according to the said<lb></lb>
Design for the Sum of one thousand two hundred pounds and<lb></lb>
that an Advertizement Should be published in one or more of the<lb></lb>
News papers to give publick notice of a day time and place for your<lb></lb>
said Comittee to meet to receive proposalls from the Several<lb></lb>
Workmen who will untertake to build the said Bridge according<lb></lb>
to the said plan, which with the Explanation thereof ought to be<lb></lb>
Deposited with the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1942">Clerk of the peace</rs>
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or Some other proper person<lb></lb>
for the inspection of Such Workmen as may be willing to<lb></lb>
Contract for the building thereof, And that it Should also be<lb></lb>
mentioned in the Said Advertizement that your Comittee will give<lb></lb>
full Satisfaction to any Person or Persons Who Shall undertake to<lb></lb>
build the Said Bridge that Punctual payment Shall be made<lb></lb>
as the Work is carried on, That your Comittee cannot make any<lb></lb>
Report touching the other matters mentioned in the Said Orders<lb></lb>
because Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1374-1">Thomas Reynell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1943">Baronett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1374-2">James Clitherow</rs>
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& Robert<lb></lb>
Hind <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1944">Esquires</rs>
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did not attend your Said Comittee altho Summoned to<lb></lb>
make appear what orders and Directions they or any of them had<lb></lb>
given for the Repairs of Chertsey or <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1561">Brentford Bridge</rs>
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, All Which your<lb></lb>
Comittee Submitts to the Judgment of this Court Dated this 16th. day of May<lb></lb>
1740.</p>
<p n="1375"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1375-1">John Milner</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1375-2">Geo:Fowke</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1376">Jos:<del>Abs</del>
Ayloffe <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1376-1">Edw Hill</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1376-2">Nat. Blackerby</rs>
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