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<p n="1450"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">April 1779</note>
and they or any three or more of them are hereby appointed a Committee<lb></lb>
to View and Examine into the State and Condition of the said Bridge and to<lb></lb>
Report on the County day of the next Session what shall appear to them upon<lb></lb>
such View and Examination to be necessary for the immediate and effectual<lb></lb>
Repair and Security of the same and the said Committee are to meet for the<lb></lb>
first time at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1260">Swan Inn</rs>
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at the foot of the said Bridge on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1261">Middlesex</rs>
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Side on Monday the Seventeenth day of May next at the hour of Nine in<lb></lb>
the forenoon and afterwards at such times and places as they shall think<lb></lb>
fit and the said Committee are hereby Empowered to take to their assistance<lb></lb>
in the Examination into the State and Condition of the said Bridge<lb></lb>
such able Workmen as they shall find necessary to be employed therein at<lb></lb>
the Expence of this County</p>
<p n="1451">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="1452">Mr, Eyles the Deputy Clerk of the peace reported that<lb></lb>
pursuant to the directions of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ654">Justices of the peace</rs>
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at the last<lb></lb>
Session he has attended very diligently on the Committee appointed by the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1262">House of Commons</rs>
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to Examine the several Returns which have been<lb></lb>
made to the order of the House of the Sixteenth day of December last in<lb></lb>
respect to persons convicted of Felonies or Misdemeanours and now under<lb></lb>
Sentence of Imprisonment in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1263">Goals and Houses of Correction</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1264">City of London</rs>
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and Counties of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1265">Middlesex</rs>
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Essex Kent Herts Surrey and<lb></lb>
Sussex specifying their respective Crimes the time when the term for which<lb></lb>
and by what Court each person has been Imprisoned together with an Account<lb></lb>
of the allowance made for the maintenance of such persons and in what<lb></lb>
manner they are employed and Report their Opinion thereon to the House<lb></lb>
and having procured a printed Copy of the Report of the said Committee<lb></lb>
he laid the same before the Court Whereupon the Resolutions of the<lb></lb>
said Committee contained in the said Report were now read and it<lb></lb>
being suggested that it was at present in agitation to move the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1266">House<lb></lb>
of Commons</rs>
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for leave to bring in a Bill "To Explain and Amend the<lb></lb>
Laws now in being relating to the Transportation and Imprisonment<lb></lb>
of certain Offenders pursuant to the tenour of the said Report</p>
<p n="1453">Resolved</p>
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