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<p n="104">sufficient Quantity of Ballast to be laid upon the same to prevent any<lb></lb>
further Damage This Court doth agree to the said Report and doth Order<lb></lb>
that the Thanks of this Court be and they are hereby given to the said<lb></lb>
Committee for the same And it appearing unto this Court by a Presentment<lb></lb>
of the Grand Jury that the said part of the said Bridge mentioned in the<lb></lb>
said Report to be in decay ought to be repaired by the Inhabitants of the<lb></lb>
said County This Court doth thereupon desire that the said Committee and<lb></lb>
also <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n104-1">Vigorous Edwards</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ128">Esqr</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_occ128" type="occupation" value="Esqr"></interp>
. one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ129">Justices of the Peace</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_occ129" type="occupation" value="Justices of the Peace"></interp>
for<lb></lb>
the said County (whom this Court doth appoint one of the said Committee) do<lb></lb>
meet together at such time and place as they shall think proper and give<lb></lb>
Directions to proper Workmen for the immediate repairing of the said part<lb></lb>
of the said Bridge according to the said Report.</p>
<p n="105">By adjournment on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55604_date15">sixth day of April 1758</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="106"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for appointing Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n106-1">Henry Hill</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_n106-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ130">High Conble</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Hundred of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo176">Edmonton</rs>
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in the place of<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n106-2">Benjamin Gage</rs>
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.</note>
Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n106-3">Benjamin Gage</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_n106-3" type="given" value="Benjamin"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_n106-3" type="surname" value="Gage"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_n106-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ131">High Constables</rs>
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of the Hundred of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo177">Edmonton</rs>
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in this County exhibited his humble Petition unto this Court Setting<lb></lb>
forth That the Petitioner being elected one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ132">High Constables</rs>
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of the said<lb></lb>
Hundred did on Notice take his Oath for the due Execution of the same and hath<lb></lb>
according to the best of his cunning and understanding faithfully executed the<lb></lb>
said Office for the Space of two years and upwards which is a longer time<lb></lb>
than many of the Petitioners Predecessors have continued in that Office<lb></lb>
And that the Petitioner hath us publick money in his hands and the<lb></lb>
continuing in the said Office being very inconvenient and prejudicial to the<lb></lb>
Petitioner in the Transactions of his Business the Petitioner therefore<lb></lb>
humbly desired to be discharged from the said office This Court being<lb></lb>
satisfied of the truth of the premises doth appoint <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n106-4">Henry Hill</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_n106-4" type="surname" value="Hill"></interp>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo178">Hadley</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_geo178" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<lb></lb>
within the said Hundred in this County Gent to be High Countable within<lb></lb>
the said Hundred of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo179">Edmonton</rs>
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in the place and stead of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n106-5">Benjamin<lb></lb>
Gage</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_n106-5" type="surname" value="Gage"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_n106-5" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and doth Order that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n106-6">Henry Hill</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_n106-6" type="surname" value="Hill"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_n106-6" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
do forthwith (after notice of<lb></lb>
this Order) attend one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ133">Justices of the Peace</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_occ133" type="occupation" value="Justices of the Peace"></interp>
of this County<lb></lb>
residing in or near the said Hundred and take his Oath before such Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for the due Execution of the said Office of the said Office of<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ134">High Constable</rs>
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within the Hundred aforesaid And from and after the time<lb></lb>
of his having taken such Oath she said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n106-7">Benjamin Gage</rs>
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is to stand<lb></lb>
absolutely discharged from being <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ135">High Constable</rs>
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within the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo180">Hundred.</rs>
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