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<p n="680">Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50627_n680-1">Charles Whitworth</rs>
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reported from the Committee<lb></lb>
of Justices appointed on Monday the 4th. of January<lb></lb>
1773 to view the State and Condition of Chertsey<lb></lb>
Bridge That on Monday the 11th. Instant the<lb></lb>
said Committee, consisting of Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50627_n680-2">Charles Whitworth</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50627_n680-3">Thomas Wood</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50627_n680-10">Jonathan Chadwick Durden</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50627_n680-4">John Phillips</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50627_n680-5">Stephen Cole</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50627_n680-6">William Shakespear</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50627_n680-7">John Brettell</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50627_n680-8">John Barnfather</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
met at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50627_geo614">Chertsey Bridge</rs>
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and surveyed the Damage<lb></lb>
which had been done by the late Flood and<lb></lb>
That the several Works order'd by Mr Durder to<lb></lb>
secure the Public pabage had been very properly<lb></lb>
executed and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50627_geo615">the Bridge</rs>
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is at present very sefe<lb></lb>
unless any unforeseen Floods should damage<lb></lb>
it.</p>
<p n="681">That "as to the Cause of the great Weight<lb></lb>
of Water which is thrown on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50627_geo616">North<obscured></obscured>
of<lb></lb>
the Bridge</rs>
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and the most effectual Method to<lb></lb>
prevent the same for the future," the Committee<lb></lb>
have hereunto annexed the Report of Messrs.<lb></lb>
Yeomans & Parsons, Surveyors, which they<lb></lb>
submit to the Justices at their Quarter, Session<lb></lb>
to order the same to be carried into Execution</p>
<p n="682">The Committee likewise represent that during<lb></lb>
the Course of this Enquiry Mr. Clark of<lb></lb>
Chertsey informed them an Application was<lb></lb>
intended to be made to parliament for a Bill<lb></lb>
to improve the Navigation of the Rivers Thames<lb></lb>
and<obscured></obscured>
from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50627_geo617">London</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50627_geo618">Cricklade</rs>
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Which<lb></lb>
appear to this Committee to afford an opportunity<lb></lb>
of introducing a Clause to answers the purposes</p>
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