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April 1779
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and they or any three or more of them are hereby appointed a Committee
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to View and Examine into the State and Condition of the said Bridge and to
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Report on the County day of the next Session what shall appear to them upon
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such View and Examination to be necessary for the immediate and effectual
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Repair and Security of the same and the said Committee are to meet for the
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first time at the
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at the foot of the said Bridge on the
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Side on Monday the Seventeenth day of May next at the hour of Nine in
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the forenoon and afterwards at such times and places as they shall think
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fit and the said Committee are hereby Empowered to take to their assistance
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in the Examination into the State and Condition of the said Bridge
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such able Workmen as they shall find necessary to be employed therein at
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the Expence of this County
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By adjournment same day
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Mr, Eyles the Deputy Clerk of the peace reported that
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pursuant to the directions of his Majestys
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at the last
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Session he has attended very diligently on the Committee appointed by the
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to Examine the several Returns which have been
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made to the order of the House of the Sixteenth day of December last in
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respect to persons convicted of Felonies or Misdemeanours and now under
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Sentence of Imprisonment in the
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Essex Kent Herts Surrey and
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Sussex specifying their respective Crimes the time when the term for which
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and by what Court each person has been Imprisoned together with an Account
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of the allowance made for the maintenance of such persons and in what
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manner they are employed and Report their Opinion thereon to the House
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and having procured a printed Copy of the Report of the said Committee
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he laid the same before the Court Whereupon the Resolutions of the
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said Committee contained in the said Report were now read and it
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being suggested that it was at present in agitation to move the
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for leave to bring in a Bill "To Explain and Amend the
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Laws now in being relating to the Transportation and Imprisonment
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of certain Offenders pursuant to the tenour of the said Report
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