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Edward Byron
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and
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Bartholomew Hammond
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Esqrs
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. being of
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the Committee of the Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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for this County (to whom it was
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referred by an Order of Sessions of the eighth day of December last to view the
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State and Condition of the Middx part of
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Chertsea Bridge
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) It appeareth to the
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>
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>
Court by the said Report That on the twenty third day of December last they did
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>
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>
meet together and took a carefull and accurate View of that past of the said
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>
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>
Bridge which lies in the said County and upon such View did find that several
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>
of the Piles thereof were very defective and in bad Condition and several of the
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>
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Braces and some of the Planking which to the said Piles had been affixed had
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>
</
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>
been torn away by the violence of the Waters and the Barges coming through the
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lb
>
</
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>
same had been last and others much damaged all which the said Committee
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
conceived and represented necessary to be repaired with all convenient Speed and
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
that by the long use and wear of Carriages the Ballast upon the said Bridge was
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lb
>
</
lb
>
so wasted and worn away that the Wheels of the Carriages actually grated upon
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
the planking of the same upon which Account and the imminent danger which line might ensue from the same the said Committee had given Directions for a
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