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<p n="1963">October 1786</p>
<p n="1964">That the said Inhabitants and others Your Memorialists, have<lb></lb>
had several Meetings lately to consider of the best means to procure a New<lb></lb>
Bridge to be built there for the Safety as well as the Convenience not only of the<lb></lb>
Neighbourhood but of all persons travelling over that part of the Kings<lb></lb>
Highway and directed Mr Payne to examine the Soil on the proper spot for<lb></lb>
building a new Bridge & to give in a Plan and Estimate of the Expence<lb></lb>
likely to be incurred by building the same, Who hath so done and by the Plan<lb></lb>
and Estimate hereto annexed it appears as the Soil is such as to require<lb></lb>
Planking and Piling under the Piers, that the expence exclusive of the<lb></lb>
Surveyors Commission will amount to 273..19..4.</p>
<p n="1965">Whereupon at a Meeting held of the said Inhabitants and others<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1270">London Apprentice</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1271">Isleworth</rs>
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on the 19th. of August last It was<lb></lb>
Resolved "That unless the Sum of £300 can be raised, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1272">the Bridge</rs>
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cannot<lb></lb>
"be Rebuilt Effectually, & that a Subscription be immediately Set on foot, and<lb></lb>
"Sollicited thro' <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1273">Isleworth</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1274">Twickenham</rs>
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, Richmond & the adjacent Parishes<lb></lb>
"for the purpose" which has been accordingly done, and a considerable<lb></lb>
Sum subscrib'd which the Subscribers your Memorialists are willing and<lb></lb>
desirous to have applied towards the rebuilding the said Bridge in an<lb></lb>
Effectual manner</p>
<p n="1966">But as it appears that the Sum likely to be raised by such<lb></lb>
Subscription will not be sufficient to build a strong useful substantial<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1275">Bridge</rs>
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, such as they Wish to have built for the benefit not only of the<lb></lb>
neighbourhood but of the public in general, not only for the Use of the<lb></lb>
present Generation but of Posterity, and being advised that by a<lb></lb>
Determination of the Court of Kings Bench (a Report of which is hereunto<lb></lb>
annexed) from Blackstones Reports, and which may also be found in<lb></lb>
Burrows Reports <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1276">Mansfield</rs>
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fol: 2594 rather more fully Reported) the<lb></lb>
following Point of Law is clearly Established</p>
<p n="1967">"That when a Private Person or Persons erect a Bridge that is of<lb></lb>
"public Utility, the public, that is the County (or Riding) are bound to keep<lb></lb>
"it in Repair"</p>
<p n="1968">And your Memorialists being thoroughly satisfied that they<lb></lb>
can by proper and sufficient Evidence prove that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1277">the Bridge</rs>
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lately fallen<lb></lb>
down was of Real public utility, and that since its being fallen down</p>
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