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<p n="1496">By adjournment Thursday 20th <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55607_date42">May 1779</rs>
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<p n="1497">The following Report from the Committee appointed at<lb></lb>
the last Session to view and examine into the State and condition<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1293">Chertsey Bridge</rs>
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being laid before the Court and the same being<lb></lb>
read as follows (that is to say)</p>
<p n="1498"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
We the Committee appointed to view that part of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1294">Chertsey<lb></lb>
Bridge</rs>
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which is in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1295">County of Middlesex</rs>
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having this<lb></lb>
seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord 1779 examined<lb></lb>
into the State and condition thereof, Report to the Magistrates<lb></lb>
of the said County in the General Sessions now assembled, That<lb></lb>
an immediate and essential Repair appears to us necessary<lb></lb>
for the security of the same</p>
<p n="1499">Particularly that the Current is much interrupted by a<lb></lb>
Number of Piles in the first and third apertures from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1296">Middlesex</rs>
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Shore-which seem to us as unnecessary to the safety of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1297">the Bridge</rs>
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as prejudicial to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1298">the passage</rs>
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of the Water-That by the removal of<lb></lb>
such piles the Pressure of the Water on the Campshooting, and<lb></lb>
Abutment would be much lessen'd By Which the latter<lb></lb>
appears to have been injured; and upon a closer examination<lb></lb>
a considerable repair thereof may, perhaps, be found necessary<lb></lb>
But the projection of the Act above <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1299">the bridge</rs>
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on the Surry Side<lb></lb>
(which turns the Stream with such violence on the Campshooting<lb></lb>
and abutment on that of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1300">Middlesex</rs>
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) is in our opinion, the<lb></lb>
Essential Grievance We Report therefore, that by removing<lb></lb>
a part of that Ait, and with the Earth thereof filling up the<lb></lb>
opposite Bay, which is above the Campshooting on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1301">Middlesex</rs>
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Side We think the evil would be effectually remedied The<lb></lb>
Current diverted back to Its natural Channel, the middle of<lb></lb>
the River; and the like Injuries prevented in future to that<lb></lb>
part of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1302">the Bridge</rs>
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, which belongs to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1303">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1500"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1500-1">Thomas Wood</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1500-2">Richard Tayler</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1500-3">Wm Shakespear</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1500-4">James Paine</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1500-5">Thos Scott</rs>
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