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By adjournment Thursday 20th
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May 1779
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The following Report from the Committee appointed at
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the last Session to view and examine into the State and condition
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of
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being laid before the Court and the same being
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read as follows (that is to say)
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We the Committee appointed to view that part of
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which is in the
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having this
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seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord 1779 examined
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into the State and condition thereof, Report to the Magistrates
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of the said County in the General Sessions now assembled, That
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an immediate and essential Repair appears to us necessary
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for the security of the same
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Particularly that the Current is much interrupted by a
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Number of Piles in the first and third apertures from the
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Shore-which seem to us as unnecessary to the safety of
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the Bridge
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as prejudicial to
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of the Water-That by the removal of
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such piles the Pressure of the Water on the Campshooting, and
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Abutment would be much lessen'd By Which the latter
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appears to have been injured; and upon a closer examination
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a considerable repair thereof may, perhaps, be found necessary
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But the projection of the Act above
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on the Surry Side
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(which turns the Stream with such violence on the Campshooting
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) is in our opinion, the
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Essential Grievance We Report therefore, that by removing
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a part of that Ait, and with the Earth thereof filling up the
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opposite Bay, which is above the Campshooting on the
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Side We think the evil would be effectually remedied The
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Current diverted back to Its natural Channel, the middle of
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the River; and the like Injuries prevented in future to that
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, which belongs to the
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Thomas Wood
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James Paine
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