| Description | Includes weekly bills of labourers by day and night, pumping, laying a foreshore, delivering and laying of stone, carpentry, backing the brick work at the bridges, cutting through some dyke ends, backing the wharf at the sluice, housing water, driving piles for the foundation of a bridge, 'criking' or 'creeking', 'stathing' and breaking ice which refers to labourers being paid by the tide. Also includes a rate of pay for soldiers to carry out farm work and harvesting which is annotated 'Adlingfleet Drainage Commission' 1917 and application for soldiers to carry out agricultural work, Aug 1917. |