In Obedience to the Order hereunto annexed We Whose Hands are hereunto set being a Committee appointed
by the said Order did on Saturday the Twenty ninth of December last take a View that Part of the said Bridge called
Chertsey Bridge which is in the County of Middlesex And do Report that several Piles are broke and Splintered
and beat out of their Trussel Heads and that the great And of the said Bridge which is on the Middlesex Side is only
supported by One Pile and that Part of the said Bridge is in very great Danger of falling down And if any Barge or
Crass Should by wilfulness accident or otherwise run against the said Pile which now only Supports the said great
Arch and should beat it down or out of itsTrussell Heads that great Part of the said Bridge for want of that
little Support must inevitably full which would not only put a Total Stop and Obstruction [..] all his Majesty's
Leige Subjects from passing with their Coaches Carts Carriages and on Foot ever the said Bridge and Barges and
Crasts under the said Bridge And also put the County to large Expence in rebuilding the same And your Committee not
taking any Workmen with them but depended upon seeing One Mr. Brown Carpenter at Chertsey rend not then
have any Estimate or take any Account of what Repairs were wanting and necessary to be done therefore Your Comittee
Adjourned over and met again on Friday the Fourth Day of this Instant January and directed Mr. Brown to taken
View of the said Bridge and make an Estimate of who Repairs were wanting and necessary to be done with the
Costs to repair the same And your Committee did meet according to appointment and Mr. Brown and his Father
attended but had made no Estimate of the said Works And your Committee being of Opinion that a Stop Should be imediately
made to prevent Barges and other Crafts from going through the said large such of the sd Bridge to prevent the Damage about menti-
oned Therefore your Committee ordered Mr. Brown imediately to do the several Particular mentioned in the Paper
hereunto annexed And likewise ordered the said large Arch to be Stopped upon both Sides on Friday the Eleventh Day
of the same Month of January and ordered that publick Notice should be gives in the News Papers vizts. to be put Twice in
the Daily Advertiser Twice in the Whitehall Evening Post & Twice in the London Evening Post & to Print 200 Notices
and to send a person up the Rive Thames to disperse and stick the said Notices up at Towns Villages Bridges &
Locks as for as the lock above Maidenhead for the better notification of the Same That as the Season of the Year will not Permit a
thorough repair Your Committee will appoint another Time to receive an Estimate and give further Directions as
the Court shall further Order & direct all which we humbly submit Etc Dated this 7th. Day of January 1750

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