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<p n="648"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1769<lb></lb>
October.<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ643">Soll. Generals</rs>
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Opinion}</note>
If it could shown that Mr. W. was antecedently obliged to contribute to the<lb></lb>
Repair of this Bridge by repairing his Warf, the Act of the Justice in 1724 would<lb></lb>
not discharge him, but I see nothing in this case to charge Mr. W. with any<lb></lb>
Obligation to repair or even to continue his ground in the Form of wharf agst.<lb></lb>
his will - There may be Cases of Public wharfs where all the Kings Subjects<lb></lb>
have a right to land their goods paying certain Rates of Wharfage and the Owner<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo586">the Wharf</rs>
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in consideration of those Payments is compellable to keep it in<lb></lb>
repair, but this for anything that appears is private property from the use of<lb></lb>
which the Owner may exclude whom he pleases or admit them upon what Terms<lb></lb>
he pleases; and the his ancestors might think it their Interest to make a wharf<lb></lb>
of it, which from its situation whilst it was kept in repair affored protection to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo587">the Bridge</rs>
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below, their Voluntary Repairs for the sake of their own Property and<lb></lb>
not of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo588">the Bridge</rs>
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, tho <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo589">the Bridge</rs>
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was accidentally benefitted by it, will not<lb></lb>
Oblige him to continue to repair, if it is no longer his Interest or Inclination<lb></lb>
so to do - I am of Opinion therefore that the obligation which is Admitted to lie<lb></lb>
on the Counties to repair <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo590">the Bridge</rs>
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extends to every thing necessary for its<lb></lb>
preservation and that if the wharf in the Condition it is will not protect the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo591">Bridge</rs>
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as it has done, it behoves the Justices to take some other Means of<lb></lb>
preventing the mischief it is threatened with at he County Expence.</p>
<p n="649">J. Dunning, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo592">Lincolns Inn</rs>
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<rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55605_date118">15th. Novr. 1769</rs>
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