By adjournment Thursday 20th May 1779

The following Report from the Committee appointed at
the last Session to view and examine into the State and condition
of Chertsey Bridge being laid before the Court and the same being
read as follows (that is to say)

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We the Committee appointed to view that part of Chertsey
Bridge which is in the County of Middlesex having this
seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord 1779 examined
into the State and condition thereof, Report to the Magistrates
of the said County in the General Sessions now assembled, That
an immediate and essential Repair appears to us necessary
for the security of the same

Particularly that the Current is much interrupted by a
Number of Piles in the first and third apertures from the Middlesex
Shore-which seem to us as unnecessary to the safety of the Bridge
as prejudicial to the passage of the Water-That by the removal of
such piles the Pressure of the Water on the Campshooting, and
Abutment would be much lessen'd By Which the latter
appears to have been injured; and upon a closer examination
a considerable repair thereof may, perhaps, be found necessary
But the projection of the Act above the bridge on the Surry Side
(which turns the Stream with such violence on the Campshooting
and abutment on that of Middlesex ) is in our opinion, the
Essential Grievance We Report therefore, that by removing
a part of that Ait, and with the Earth thereof filling up the
opposite Bay, which is above the Campshooting on the Middlesex
Side We think the evil would be effectually remedied The
Current diverted back to Its natural Channel, the middle of
the River; and the like Injuries prevented in future to that
part of the Bridge , which belongs to the County of Middlesex

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Richard Tayler< no role >
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