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Claim for loss of property #5476 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  5476 The Board for repair of the Highways for the Township of Sheffield The Board for repair of the Highways for the Township of Sheffield Bower Spring, Sheffield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Owners by Statute   Whitewashing Cellar, etc. £3 10s    
    To labour in removing deposit and Mud left on surface of Streets by ~ Inundation, "viz"        
    Labourers 27½ days at 4/9 £6 10s 7d  
    Labourers 52½ days at 4/~ £10 10s    
    Labourers 52¼ days at 3/6 £9 2s 10d  
    Labourers 51¾ days at 3/4 £8 12s 6d  
    Labourers 855¼ days at 3/~ £128 5s 9d  
    Team Work 384½ days at 7/6 £144 3s 9d  
    Cleansing Sewers 760 days at 4/~ £152      
    Cleansing Sewers 146 days at 3/~ £22      
    Damage to surface of Philadelphia Road 2400 Yards superficial £65      
    Damage to surface of Rutland Road 1384 Yards £22      
    Damage to surface of Corporation Street 2000 Yards £25      
    Damage to surface of Alma Street 230 Yards £5 10s    
    Damage to surface of Bridge Street 95 Yards £4      
    Damage to Waterloo Footway 33 Yards lineal Wrought Iron Railing set in tooled Ashlar, Stone Coping 80 Superficial Yards £35 14s 6d  
    Ashphalt requiring to be relaid £3 10s    
    Temporary Fencing to same Footpath £2 15s    
    Resetting Parapet of Bridge £3   6d  
    Damage to Ashphalt in dépôt £6      
    Repairs to Bellows and Tools cleaning £2 15s    
    Estimated cost of restoring the Iron Bridge at Ball Street £850      
    Cost of temporary Bridge at Ball Street £80      
    Estimated cost of restoring the Iron Bridge at Bridgehouses £550      
    Part cost of cleansing out Kelham Goit £30      
        £2170   5d  
  Certificate Granted
22 March 1865
£2010      

Note: Ashphalt [sic]

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