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<p n="1527">necessary to fill up the present recess and being the abutment<lb></lb>
forward from the north side of the said abutment to the South<lb></lb>
Side of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1330">the Bridge</rs>
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till its meets the Line of the Campshotting To<lb></lb>
Call off the unnecessary Files in the first and Second apertures<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1331">the Bridge</rs>
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from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1332">Middlesex</rs>
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Shore<obscured></obscured>
Replace so many of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1527-1">Piles Beams</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ677">Joists</rs>
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and Timbers and so much of the Planking as an and is damaged<lb></lb>
and may be necessary to be removed or making the above Repairs<lb></lb>
To plank the several piles, To lay Grabvel on <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1333">the Bridge</rs>
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and the<lb></lb>
Abutment when necessary</p>
<p n="1528">That upon Consulting able and Experiensed<lb></lb>
Workmen as to the Expence of carrying the same into Execution<lb></lb>
Your Committee find that it is impossible to form a Just<lb></lb>
Estimate of the Expence of Executing the said Repairs because no<lb></lb>
person can possibly tell to what depth it may be found<lb></lb>
necessary to drive the piles into the Bed of the River nor can<lb></lb>
the number of Piles that may be requisite or at present ascertaind.<lb></lb>
Besides it will be necessary in the repair to take up the abutment<lb></lb>
on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1334">Middlesex</rs>
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Shore which will give occasion for a Batter dean<lb></lb>
and as the abutment partly stands upon a Quick Sand a great<lb></lb>
deal of pumping may be requisite <del> <obscured></obscured>
to be Expected</del>
the Expence of which it is<lb></lb>
impossible to Estimate Your Committee therefore on the whole<lb></lb>
are Convinced that as in the Execution of these principal objects<lb></lb>
of Repair the Expence cannot be foreseen. any particular Estimate<lb></lb>
must be a matter more of guess than of Certainly. But in the<lb></lb>
Execution of the above repairs in order that the County may be<lb></lb>
put to as little Expence as possible <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1528-1">James Paine</rs>
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Esquire has very<lb></lb>
obligingly offered to direct the Execution thereof as a Surveyor<lb></lb>
without any Expence whatsoever to the County on that account<lb></lb>
for which the Committee think the County very much obliged to<lb></lb>
him</p>
<p n="1529">She said Committee further Report<lb></lb>
that it is their Opinion that nothing effectual can be done for the future<lb></lb>
Ease of the County in respect to assining the continual Expence<lb></lb>
of supporting the said Bridge unless the present Bridge <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
be<lb></lb>
removed and a Stone Bridge built into place or in Case that should<lb></lb>
not be thought fit in lieu of the Timber piles which at present</p>
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