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Continued Thursday
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April 27th. 1797
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Copy Letter from
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Wm Waddington
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addressed to the Special Committee}
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Having been informed that a Special Committee of
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Governors were to meet this day to deliberate upon various
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matters which have reference to the great Sewer now filling
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up, and the valuable Hospital Estates as connected therewith,
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-the tenants of the Hospital who occupy those premises,
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and who are many of them Governors, being extremely
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desirous of contributing all the information and assistance
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in their power on so interesting an occasionhad the
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Sewer carefully surveyed yesterday by Messrs
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Samuel
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Wyatt
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George Gwilt
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two
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Surveyors
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of established
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reputationwhose report in consequence is now enclosed
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And they trust that the Governors will see the propriety
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of coming to some resolution thereon, and of transmitting
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the same along with this report and that of the Hospital
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Surveyor-this day to the Commissioners of Servers; who,
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being delegated by, and in this instance representatives
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of, the Corporation of London are clearly bound to fill
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up the old Sewer so, that it will be a sufficient and
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permanent Security for the lofty Buildings over and
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adjoining the same.It is well known that the 29th
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Geo 2d obliged the
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to make a good and
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sufficient Sewer and Arch; and their Bridge Committee
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directed their Surveyor and Clerk to Certify to the
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Governors of Bridewell in May 1779 that they had
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been so made in the best manner; and that they were fit
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and adequate to support the lofty Buildings intended by
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the Hospital to be constructed thereon. This was plainly
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intended as an inducement to build, and the Governors
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acted upon it. The Corporation were moreover bound
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by the 29 Geo: 2 to maintain and keep in repair the
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