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<p n="1688">By adjournment on Saturday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55602_date224">8th. Day of Decr. 1750</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1689"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order appointing a<lb></lb>
Committee for taking a<lb></lb>
View of the Middx part of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2545">Chertsea Bridge</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
order to repair & amend<lb></lb>
the same.}</note>
Information being given unto this Court that Some Considerable<lb></lb>
Damage hath lately happened to that part of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2546">Chertsea Bridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
which is the County of Middx and which usually hath been and<lb></lb>
ought to be repaired when needfull, at the Charge of the Inhabitants<lb></lb>
of the Said County, which Damage was occasioned by Some Barge<lb></lb>
or Barges passing under the Said Bridge and running to close<lb></lb>
or pressing upon that part of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo2547">the Bridge</rs>
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So damaged, and that it<lb></lb>
is necessary that the Same Should be repaired, This Court being of<lb></lb>
opinion that it will be much better that the aforesaid part of the Said<lb></lb>
Bridge So damaged Should be repaired in Some convenient time<lb></lb>
than to have the repairing thereof deferred Doth Order that it be<lb></lb>
And It is hereby recommended and referred unto <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1689-1">James Clitherow</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1689-2">John Derbyshire Birkhead</rs>
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, John Ausiter, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1689-3">George Errington</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1689-4">Boulton Mainwaring</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1689-5">William Withers</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55602_n1689-6">Samuel Bever</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1989">Esquires</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1990">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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of this County and Such other <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ1991">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
as Shall think fit to be present or any three or more of them as a<lb></lb>
Committee to view the aforesaid part of the Said Bridge which is<lb></lb>
in the County of Middx, and to take to their Assistance Such<del>able</del>
<lb></lb>
able Workman or Workmen as they Shall think proper, and to<lb></lb>
See where and in what manner the Same is damaged, and to<lb></lb>
See and take an Account of what Repairs and Amendments are<lb></lb>
wanting and necessary to be done to the aforesaid part of the Said<lb></lb>
Bridge which is in the County of Middx to the intent the Same may<lb></lb>
be well and Sufficiently repaired and amended, And to make an<lb></lb>
Estimate of what it may cost to repair and amend the Same with<lb></lb>
good and Sound Materials in a Substantial and workman like<lb></lb>
Manner, And also to consider if it be necessary that anything<lb></lb>
further Should be done for the better Supporting & Securing the<lb></lb>
Middx part of the Said Bridge, And to make their Report in<lb></lb>
writing touching the Premisses to the Court on the County day of the<lb></lb>
next General Quarter Session of the Peace for this County.</p>
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