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necessary to fill up the present recess and being the abutment
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forward from the north side of the said abutment to the South
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Side of
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till its meets the Line of the Campshotting To
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Call off the unnecessary Files in the first and Second apertures
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of
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from the
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Middlesex
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Shore
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Replace so many of
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the
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and Timbers and so much of the Planking as an and is damaged
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and may be necessary to be removed or making the above Repairs
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To plank the several piles, To lay Grabvel on
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and the
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Abutment when necessary
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That upon Consulting able and Experiensed
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Workmen as to the Expence of carrying the same into Execution
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Your Committee find that it is impossible to form a Just
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Estimate of the Expence of Executing the said Repairs because no
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person can possibly tell to what depth it may be found
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necessary to drive the piles into the Bed of the River nor can
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the number of Piles that may be requisite or at present ascertaind.
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Besides it will be necessary in the repair to take up the abutment
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on the
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Shore which will give occasion for a Batter dean
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and as the abutment partly stands upon a Quick Sand a great
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deal of pumping may be requisite
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to be Expected
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the Expence of which it is
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impossible to Estimate Your Committee therefore on the whole
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are Convinced that as in the Execution of these principal objects
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of Repair the Expence cannot be foreseen. any particular Estimate
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must be a matter more of guess than of Certainly. But in the
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Execution of the above repairs in order that the County may be
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put to as little Expence as possible
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James Paine
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Esquire has very
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obligingly offered to direct the Execution thereof as a Surveyor
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without any Expence whatsoever to the County on that account
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for which the Committee think the County very much obliged to
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him
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She said Committee further Report
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that it is their Opinion that nothing effectual can be done for the future
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Ease of the County in respect to assining the continual Expence
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of supporting the said Bridge unless the present Bridge
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be
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removed and a Stone Bridge built into place or in Case that should
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not be thought fit in lieu of the Timber piles which at present
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