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