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In Consequence of a Message from the Justices of
the Peace deliver’d at last Michaelmas Sessions to
my Agent Mr Donkin I prevail’d upon Mr Smeaton
as soon as the State of his Health would permit
him, to view & examine the State & ruins of
Hexham Bridge, & to make Estimates as well of
the value of the undamag’d parts, as of the deranged
& damaged Materials & to compute the Amount of
the Sum necessary to put the same into such
Condition as my Contract requires. Which Estimate
& Computation, together with Mr Smeaton’s Letter
to me are annexed, & I hereby offer to pay the
Sum of Two thousand nine hundred & twenty
five pounds seventeen shillings & five pence, on the
said Computation mention’d by Installments in such
manner & proportions as I would the money paid
to me by the County & as express’d in my
Letter to Mr Aynsley at last Sessions upon being
releas’d from my said Contract.
Red Rice Heny Errington
Decbr 18 1783

Note: Mr Errington's letter and proposal for settlement

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Transcribed by CTW and TB