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dge suffering damage from Floods, and thereby quetting the County to future Charges,
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That in consequence of such enlarged. Plan, the Expence has increased very
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Considerably, beyond the first Estimate, which amounted only to 273:19:4,
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whereas The Sum Contracted to be paid for rebuilding the same, as it is now
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rebuilt, amounts to 328 to, besides a Considerable Expence in extra Works, that
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Could not be included in the first Estimate, or the Contract, making together
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Eighty pounds at Least:
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That Your Petitioners also beg leave to mention, that the Road Dading
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, particularly at the West End, was so Low, owing in a great measure
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to the heightening the Arches, in Obedience to the above Mentioned Recommendation,
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from your Worships, that it has cost a considerable extra Sum to raise the same,
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and make the Access Easy, not Less then £20. Which, at the time they were covering
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the Bridge
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with Gravel, they likewise did, although, when
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was build, it
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being then by virtue of your worships resolution a County Bridge; the repair
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and raising of such Road was a Charge on the County, as being within 300 fact of
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the Ends of the said Bridge.
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As Therefore Petitioners have
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of the work expended at least and
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Hundred Pounds beyond what was first Calcuted, partly in obedience to your recom
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Mendation, in order to prevent furture Expence to the County, and party in doing
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a work, that was strictly and legally a Charge on the County rate, and as the
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Subscription Already raised, together with the £100 given by the County, falls short of
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the whole Expense 145:10:4, as by a Particular Account hereto annexed, which
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they fear it will be difficult to raise by a second Subscription; although past
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of it May be,
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They humbly pray your worships to take the promisses into your Consideration, and
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order such further Sum to be paid put of the County rate, towards Compleating the
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payment of the Expenses incurred by so useful a work as in your Discration you
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shall think fit.
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James Clitherow
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John Taylour
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J; Franks W Drake
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I:Godfrey Ilippisley
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The Comtee appoint for the
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Execution of the work in behalf
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of ourselves & the rest of the
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Subscribers Decr. 13th 1787}
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