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Turnpike Act — Observations on
82 § 53.
PROCEDURE
There is no Limitation of Time for summary prosecution
The Action must be brought within a Month
after the Offence, & the notice must be given 10
days before the bringing of the Action; this leaves
21 days in the longest months & but 18 in the
shortest for finding out the offender the Prosecutor's finding out the an
Attorney, for the Attorney's proposing the case
for Counsel, for the Counsel's settling the form
of the notice (which is a thing often done) for the Attorney's
getting it back from the Counsel, & for his meeting
with the Deft to serve it on him: all this upon the supposition
that the "Officina Justitia" is kept always open;
of that there are no Sundays, and that the Post
takes up no time in coming up to London from Truro or Carlisle.
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83. § 52
If the Surveyor be the Informer for the a specific
penalty, what is to be done then with it? v 85
84 § 51
I see no great use in giving the power of convicting
given to Trustees, when no warrant power is given them
to open a warrant for the levying of the
Penalty
85 § 52
Is any Horse or Ox (with his its accoutrements) to be
when recover'd by a Person employd about
the Road to be employ'd about applied to the amending it?
If so, where is it to be kept? who is to be at
the charge of keeping it? Must it be kept at
all events till it dies, or may it be sold? & who
then is empower'd to sell it? & what is to be done
with the money received for it which it fetches.
86 § 56.
An Assembly of Trustees when they have done their
business, are disposed all over the County
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or perhaps the Kingdom how is it possible to
give notice to every one? The article should be
given to the Clerks & he return the proceedings.
87 § 56
The Appeal may be at any Quarter Sessions
within 6 months after the cause of complaint
& the return may is to be at such Quarter Sessions
they who are to return it may save this for comply with
the terms of the provisions & save the Forfeiture
by making the return the Sessions after that
in which the Appeal is brought.
88 § 60
County ... or place — Isle of Ely — Riding
Court at Kingston — but Qu then excluded by
"his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster"?
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