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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>MARCHANTS WATER-WORKS.</HEAD>
<P>KING <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> by their Letters Pa|tents, bearing Date the eighth Day of <HI>March</HI> in the &s;ixth Year of their Reign; did Grant to <HI>Craven Howard</HI> and <HI>John Harington,</HI> Gent Decea&s;ed: and to <HI>Hugh Marchant</HI> and <HI>Huntley Bigg,</HI> Gent. for the Term of ninety nine Years, under the yearly Rent of five Marks, thereby Re&s;erved the U&s;e of all &s;uch Waters as run down the Common-Sewers within the Bills of Mor|tality, (Except tho&s;e within the City and Liberties of <HI>London,</HI> and tho&s;e Inve&s;ted in the City of <HI>London</HI> by Act of Parliament) for the driving Mills then to be Erected for the more Convenient &s;erving of &s;everal Places of the Town with <HI>Thames</HI> and other Water. And by their Letters Patents, bearing Date the twenty &s;econd Day of <HI>May,</HI> in the Eighth Year of their Reign, for Promoting &s;o Publick and Good a Work, did give and grant to them for the &s;ame Term Licen&s;e and Liberty, to erect Over-&s;hot Mills lay Pipes, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> in the River of <HI>Thames,</HI> and to take the <HI>Thames</HI>-Water for &s;upplying the Places afore&s;aid with Water at u&s;ual and rea&s;onable Rates.</P>
<P>The Patentees have been at near twenty Thou&s;and Pounds Ex|pence in the&s;e Works, and have as yet received very little or no Profit thereby.</P>
<P><HI>And the &s;ame being a Publick Good, The Proprietors humbly de&s;ire that the&s;e Grants may be by a &s;aving Clau&s;e or otherwi&s;e, as the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons &s;hall think fit, excepted out of the Bill for Re&s;uming the Grants of Lands and other Revennues, &s;ince the &s;ixth of</HI> February, 1684. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<P>MARCHANTS WATER-WORKS.</P>
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