necessary to fill up the present recess and being the abutment
forward from the north side of the said abutment to the South
Side of the Bridge till its meets the Line of the Campshotting To
Call off the unnecessary Files in the first and Second apertures
of the Bridge from the Middlesex Shore [..] Replace so many of
the Piles Beams< no role > Joists and Timbers and so much of the Planking as an and is damaged
and may be necessary to be removed or making the above Repairs
To plank the several piles, To lay Grabvel on the Bridge and the
Abutment when necessary

That upon Consulting able and Experiensed
Workmen as to the Expence of carrying the same into Execution
Your Committee find that it is impossible to form a Just
Estimate of the Expence of Executing the said Repairs because no
person can possibly tell to what depth it may be found
necessary to drive the piles into the Bed of the River nor can
the number of Piles that may be requisite or at present ascertaind.
Besides it will be necessary in the repair to take up the abutment
on the Middlesex Shore which will give occasion for a Batter dean
and as the abutment partly stands upon a Quick Sand a great
deal of pumping may be requisite [..] to be Expected the Expence of which it is
impossible to Estimate Your Committee therefore on the whole
are Convinced that as in the Execution of these principal objects
of Repair the Expence cannot be foreseen. any particular Estimate
must be a matter more of guess than of Certainly. But in the
Execution of the above repairs in order that the County may be
put to as little Expence as possible James Paine< no role > Esquire has very
obligingly offered to direct the Execution thereof as a Surveyor
without any Expence whatsoever to the County on that account
for which the Committee think the County very much obliged to
him

She said Committee further Report
that it is their Opinion that nothing effectual can be done for the future
Ease of the County in respect to assining the continual Expence
of supporting the said Bridge unless the present Bridge [..] be
removed and a Stone Bridge built into place or in Case that should
not be thought fit in lieu of the Timber piles which at present