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P Adjorn Jovis
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26o. die May 1726
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Order for treating and
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contracting with Workmen
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touching the repair of
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as is in Middx Etc}
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Upon reading the Report of William Cotesworth Senr Thomas
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West and
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Philip Willshire
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Esqrs three of his Maties Justices of
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the peace of this County being of the Comittee appointed by
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an Order of Court made in April Sessions 1726 to take to their
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Assistance some Engineer or such able Workmen as they should
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think fit and to take a view of such part of a publique Bridge
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called
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as is in this County, and to see if any and
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what repaires were wanting and necessary to be done thereto,
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and to make an estimate of what it would cost to repair the same,
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It appeareth to this Court that the said three Justices of the
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peace together with
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William Ogbourne
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and severall able
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workmen well recomended and capable of performing the said
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Worke have taken a view of the said Bridge, and doe find the
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same to be much damaged by the great floods last Winter and
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so very much decayed by the rottenness of the piles which did
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support the said Bridge that a great part thereof is broken
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downe and wholly impassable for carriages Etc and an
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immediate repair or rebuilding is absolutely necessary which
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said repaires or rebuilding will want the materialls and
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Workmanship (the particulars whereof are hereunto annexed)
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And in the Opinion of the said Justices the Workmen who are to
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perform the same will deserve the Sume of six hundred and fifty
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pounds or thereabouts, And the said Workmen desire that what
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Sume or Sumes they shall contract for (they giveing sufficient
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security) be advanced to them as followeth (vizt.) one third part
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of the whole Sume contracted for to be advanced to them at the
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execution of the Articles for carrying on the said Worke, one third
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part more thereof when the said Bridge shall be wholly plankt,
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and the other third part residue and remainder thereof when the
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said worke shall be fully compleated and finished to the satisfaction
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of such Gentleman as the Court shall appoint to survey the
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same, As by the said Report relation being thereunto had way
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at large appeare, This Court upon consideration had of the
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premisses Is of opinion that such part of the said Bridge as
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is in this County be forthwith repaired, And for that end and
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