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<p n="297">Whereas a Presentment was made by the Grand Jury<lb></lb>
for the County of Middx unto the Court of General<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo547">Hicks Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo548">St. John Street</rs>
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in and for the said County by<lb></lb>
adjornment on the sixth day of April in the Seventeenth<lb></lb>
year of his present Majesties Reign That such part<lb></lb>
of a certain Publick Bridge called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo549">Chertsea Bridge</rs>
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as is in the same County (which part of the same<lb></lb>
Bridge hath been heretofore usually rebuilt repaired<lb></lb>
and maintained at the Charge of the Inhabitants of<lb></lb>
the same County) is very much out of Repair<lb></lb>
And that it is necessary that the aforesaid part of<lb></lb>
the same Bridge should be forthwith repaired or<lb></lb>
new built And that at a Court of the General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace held for the County of Middx<lb></lb>
at Hicks Hall in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo550">St. John Street</rs>
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by adjornment<lb></lb>
on Friday the sixth day of April in the Seventeenth<lb></lb>
year of his present Majesty's Reign It was then Ordered<lb></lb>
that the said part of the said Bridge should be<lb></lb>
forthwith repaired at the Costs and Charges of the<lb></lb>
Inhabitants of this County And it now appearing<lb></lb>
to this Court that the said part of the said Bridge<lb></lb>
called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55602_geo551">Chertsea Bridge</rs>
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has been Contracted for by<lb></lb>
the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55602_occ378">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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of this County for the repairation<lb></lb>
of the same And that a great part of the Works<lb></lb>
has been carried on and Compleated in a good and<lb></lb>
work in alike manner And that there are Several Sums<lb></lb>
of Money one and owing for Timber Iron Lead Etc<lb></lb>
And to Several Workmen for the Several Works<lb></lb>
already done and to be done to compleat and finish<lb></lb>
the same And it also appearing to this Court that three<lb></lb>
fourths of the Money of the last Rate made in April<lb></lb>
Sessions last being the preceeding Rate had been paid<lb></lb>
and expended to answer the Ends and Purposes mentioned</p>
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