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By Adjornmt. on Thursday the
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22d. day of May 1740
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Order for receiving
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with Workmen touching
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the building of
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Etc.}
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Whereas Sr.
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Joseph Ayloffe
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Houlding Bart
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Sr
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Edward Hill
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Nathaniel Blackerby
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John Milner
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George Feroke
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Esquires
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being a
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Quorum of the Committee of
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Justices of the peace
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of this County
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appointed by an Order of the Seventeenth day of April last
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to employ an Engineer or Skilfull persons to lay before the said
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Committee Such method plans and proposalls as might be
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most proper for rebuilding
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Brentford Bridge
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with Stone, and to
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take an account or estimate of the charge thereof, have by
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their Report in writing dated the Sixteenth day of May instant
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now delivered into this Court certifyed That they did employ Mr.
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Charles Labelye
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a Skilfull Engineer (and who is Engineer to the
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Westminster Bridge
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Commissrs) Who having carefully viewed
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the Situation of the present Bridge at
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Brentford
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hath prepared
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& laid before the said Committee a Plan or Design for rebuilding
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the Said Bridge Partly of Brick and Partly of Stone and an
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explanation thereof, as also an estimate of the expence of building the Palne which plan explanation & estimate were annexed to the
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said Report, And that it appearing to the said Committee that
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the said estimate was made upon a Supposition that the said
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Bridge Should be only twenty two feet wide in the Clear the
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said Committee were of opinion that
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Should be
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twenty five feet wide in the clear for the benefit of Foot
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Passengers as well as carriages & Horsemen, the doing of
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which will in the opinion of Mr. Labelye increase the expence
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of building the said Bridge about one hundred pounds over &
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above the said estimate annexed to the same Report, which the
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said Committee conceive will be a proper Bridge, and approve
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of the Said plan and Design,and are of opinion that
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may be built according to the Said Design for the Sum of one
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thousand two hundred pounds, and that an Advertizement
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Should be published in one or more of the News Papers to give
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Publick notice of a day time & place for the said Committee to
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meet to receive proposalls from the Several Workmen who
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will undertake to build the said Bridge according to the said
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Plan,which with the explanation thereof ought to do be
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deposited with the
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or some other proper person
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for the inspection of Such Workmen as may be willing to
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Contract for the building thereof, And that it Should also be
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mentioned in the said Advertizement that the said Committee
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will give full Satisfaction to any person or persons who shall
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undertake
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to build the said Bridge that punctual payment
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shall be made as the work is carried on, And that the Committee
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cannot make any Report touching the other matters mentioned
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in the said Order because Sr.
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Thomas Reynell
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Bart. James
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Clitherow
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Robert Hinde
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did
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not attend the Said
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Committee altho' Sumond to make appear what Orders &
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