Middx

At the General Quarter Session of the peace of our sovereign Lord
the King holden for the County of Middx at Hickshall in St. John
Street in the County aforesaid by adjornment on Thursday the
thirteenth day of January in the Sixteenth year of the reign of
our sovereign Lord George the second King of Great Britain Etc

Whereas St. Joseph Ayloffe Houlding< no role > Bart. James Clitherow< no role > &
John Poulson< no role > Esquires being a Quorum of the Committee of his
Majesty's Justices of the peace for the County of Middx concerning
the new building of Brentford Bridge in the said County
have [..] by their Report in writingdated this thirteenth day of
January instantCertifyed unto this Court that they met together
at Hicks hall Tuesday the twenty first day of December last to
consider of the matters referred to thethe Committeeby an Order of Sessions of
the Ninth day of September last touching what sum of money is fit
& proper to be allowed to Mr. Charles Labelye in the said Order
named the Engineer & Surveyor (who designed & conducted the
new building of Brentford Bridge in the said County) for his
time trouble & expences in & about the same And that upon
hearing the said Mr. Labelye (who was present before the said
committee) alledging that he attended the Sessions and the
Committee concerning the new building the said Bridge
ever since may 1740, and bestowed much time, and was at
great trouble in designing & conducting the new building
of the same Bridge till it was finished in June 1742, and
attended the works as aften as necessary, and that this travelling
& other charges upon the occasion aforesaid have cost him
upwards of thirty pounds And that the said Committee being
satisfyed of the truth of the premisses and also that Mr. Labetyes
trouble was very extraordinary in regard attended the
works at Brentford Bridge here a week at wast and that he had
also made & prepared several plans & drafts for the new Bridge
& the several parts thereof, and that he hath not reced for the
said services any satisfaction on allowance whatsoever [..]

were

of opinion that the said Mr. Labelye should be allowed for his charges &
expences aforesaid the sum of £30. And that it is fite proper that
the said Mr. Labelye should also be allowed as a Compensation
& gratuity for his nine & trouble in designing & conducting the
new building the said Bridge and for hrs said attendances over
& above his said charges the bun ther sum of 120l. And that
the committee her of opinion that the said allowance
is reasonable, This Court upon reading the said Report and
on consideration of the premises Doth differ with the said