Document 1, p 2
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| Xmas Sess 1[h?] Janry 1767 | ||||
| Bridge over Tyne at Hexham. A Petition being | ||||
| presented to this Sessions from several of the Inhabitants | ||||
| of the Town of Hexham in this County and the | ||||
| neighbourhood thereof and recommended to the | ||||
| Bench by the Grand Jury praying that this | ||||
| Bench would order such a Sum of Money to be | ||||
| paid towards building the said Bridge and woud | ||||
| grant such other Aid as should |
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| It is therefore agreed and order’d that the | ||||
| Treasurer of this County shall pay to Sir Walter | ||||
| Blackett Bart or his order towards Building the | ||||
| said Bridge, and defraying other expenses | ||||
| arising in Consquence of building the same the | ||||
| Sum of One thousand Pounds the same to be | ||||
| paid by four equal payments, the first whereof | ||||
| to be made at the Sessions next following the | ||||
| beginning to build the said Bridge and the other | ||||
| three payments to be made in three years then | ||||
| after (that is to say) One in each year, the same | ||||
| payments to be made on Condition that the said | ||||
| Bridge shall be made a free Bridge for all his | ||||
| Majesties Subjects having Occasion to pass that | ||||
| Way, and on Condition that the said Bridge shall | ||||
| be maintained without expence to this County for | ||||
| the | ||||
| the Term of seven Years from ⁁ time of Compleating | ||||
| the building thereof at the expiration of which Term | ||||
Note: Authorisation for original bridge, 16 January 1767, p 2
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