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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Reference:-
GO. 537
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RECORD OFFICE, OUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITH- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE
LONDON
Mar 5. Angi
A.
17372 Q.
A.
2145.
In high
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that floor, what should you understand by that Would it be sufficient to make good what you have seen,
and
and as far as you can test by thumping the ground, naking good that surface only, or should you think it necessary to take up two feet of that concrete, to see what state the concrete was in underneath?
I should go back and thump it with the handle of the piok, and if I found a holey place, where the skin of cement was parted from the concrete below, I should hammer until I had made a hole, but I would not be Justified in using the point of the pick, and then I should make good that by restoring the floor with cement mortar only, my reason being that, I take it, object to the floor is to prevent any water which is there on the surface from soaking away into the walls Now, I am going to carry you on a little further, if for the sake of an experiment you were to take a block two feet square out of the floor, so that you
could turn it over, and it was a six inch concrete
floor
the
17-372
that
and you found the upper four inches of that
e olid and good and difficult to break with a pick, but
an inch or an inch and a half at the bottom was damp,
I should say that the Icwer inoh and a half had never
set.
Then would you condemn the whole of that floor ? 17373
73
Q.
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No, not if it would hold water.
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75- Q.
17.374
If by pouring water on the top of that floor, it would not reach down to the bottum, do you think they could call upon you to pull up the whole of that floor ✦
Do I take it that you mean pouring water on the cement covering on the top of the ficor?
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I will go a little further, and say, if you take off. that cement and put on water, - a fair quantity, not keeping it soaking over for a month, I take it that
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