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June 1794
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Finances are barely sufficient to keep the Road in tolerable repair
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and they are by their act precluded from expending any part of their
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Income upon the repair of Bridges liable to be repaired by private Persons
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Bodies politic or Corporate, or the County, they have never been able to
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entertain an Idea of entering on a work of such magnitude and as the
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Bridge is (however incommodious) in good repair and not likely to be in
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such a state as to require its being rebuilt for many years, they thought
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they could not with any propriety request the County to rebuild it in the
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manner abovementioned however desirable the object may be
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But as at this present time two circumstances exist which
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encourage them to hope that the Rebuilding
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in the manner
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proposed may be carried into Execution at a moderate expence to the
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County they are induced to lay this Memorial before your Worships for
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your mature consideration.
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The First of these circumstances is, that the Wooden foot
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Bridge herein before mentioned is in great want of repair and has been
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directed to be repaired by an Order of Sessions and an Estimate of such
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repair has been made by your Surveyor amounting to £60: which
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Repair has been postponed on Account of the second circumstance above
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alluded to namely that the course of the
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Grand Junction Canal
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passes
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under the said Bridge in the channel of the said River Brent and a
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doubt has been entertained whether the Arch of the present Bridge is high
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enough to admit the Craft that will navigate the said Canal to pass under
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it commodiously at flood times which very frequently happen in that River
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in the Winter and sometimes on sudden great falls of Rain in the Summer
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That in the progress of the Canal Work, this doubt is almost
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become a certainty and the principal Surveyor Mr. Jessop has declared it as
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his opinion that although he thinks the present Arch may answer the
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purpose by deepening the bed of the River under
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(which it may be
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remarked may endanger
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) by undermining the Piers of it, yet to
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have an higher Arch and a Bridge standing at right Angles with the
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Canal and the Lock there newly constructed would be so desireable an
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Object, that he would advise the Company to come to an Agreement with
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