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SECT II New. TRUSTEES. Orig. ART XVI.

Any 5 Trustees may audit the accounts of Mortgagees in possession of the Polls+ & by themselves or Clerk may
+Sect. Art. New [Sect. 42 Orig.]
prosecute such Mortagees not accounting; // & for for holding beyond time #: also they may call in the writings of their Officers in general+
//Sect. Art. New [Sect. 42 Origi]
#Sect. Art. New.
and in person or by deputy, audit the accounts of Tollgatherers & Surveyors#.
#Sect. Art. New. Sect. 45 Or. [Sect. Orig.] +Sect. Art. New [Sect. 35 Or.

ART. XVII.

Any 5 Trustees may determine of + may take order for redress their +Sect. Art. New
[Sect. orig]
removal and or other reparation. // of encroachments made by Husbandmen upon the road. //Sect. Art. New [Sect 29 Orig.]

ART. XVIII.

Any 5 Trustees may order to be erected on any part of their Road, such Engines, for weighing Carriages of burthen, as
+Sect. Art. New [Sect. 1. Orig.] they think proper+: and all or any such Carriages not exempted to be weighed:// & Tolls to be taken for overweight.# //Sect. Art. New Sect. 1. Orig.] #Sect. Art. New [Sect. 1. Orig.]

ART. XIX.

Any 3 Trustees may determine frauds respecting the distances of Wheels;+ & respecting the numbers & dispositions of
+Sect. Art. New [Sect. 9. Orig.]
Beasts in draughts;// & rechecking the weight:# also, if neglects of Tollgatherers concerning the frauds last mentioned.# //Sect. Art. New [Sect. 9. Orig.]

Observations.

I have said "frauds": for it is remarkable, that (whether it be by accident or by design) no cognicance is given
#Sect. Art. New [Sect. 6. Orig.]
to Trustees of any of the original offences against the provisions relative to these matters: but only of certain attempts
to elude the penalties for those offences.#Sect. Art. New [Sect. 6. Orig.]

ART. XX.

Any 2 Trusteed, on the death of a Tollgatherer; may appoint another to supply his place, untill the next meeting.+ +Sect. Art. New [Sect. 44. Orig.]

Observations.>

"Death" I would add "or sudden disability."
"Place" I would insert "(& 10 )"

ART. XXI.

Any 2 Trustees may by writing order the Wheels of Carriages of Burthen,
not exempted+, to be measured at the Tollgates.//

+By Sect. Art New [Sect. 2, 3, 23. Orig.] //

Observations.

"All the Trustees" I cannot conjecture the meaning of
this word "all", or whether it has any. Trustees It is not
prefixed to the word "Trustees" in any other instance
besides this.
"Weighing-Engine" A Weighing-Engine including a Tollgate
at a necessary part of it, there seems no occasion
for mentioning it.

Whereas the Laws for the general Preamble.
Regulation of the Turnpole Roads of
this Kingdom are very numerous, and
in some Respect ineffectual: And whereas
the good Purposes thereby intended
might be better effected, if the said
Laws were intirely repealed, and One
Law made for carrying such Purposes into Execution:
Wherefore, for Remedy thereof, be it enacted by the
King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice
and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and
by the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be
Five or more Trustees for Turnpike Roads, at a General Meeting, impowered to erect Weighing Engines;
lawful to and for all Commissioners and Trustees appointed,
or who shall hereafter be appointed by any Act
or Acts of Parliament for the Repair of any Turnpike
Road within that Part of Great Britain called England
, or any five or more of them, at a General Meeting,
if they shall think proper, at any or as many Gate or
Gates, Bar or Bars, as they have erected or shall erect
for the receiving of any Toll or Tolls, or upon any
Part of the Road within their respective Jurisdictions.

SECT. IV.

Trustees impowered to order the Fellies of all Wagons, &c. to be gagged.
And for the better discovering and detecting the Offenders
against this Act, it is hereby further enacted,
That it shall [and may] be lawful to and for all the Trustees
appointed or to be appointed by any Act or Acts of Parliament,
made or to be made for the repairing or amending
any Turnpike Road within the Kingdom, or any
Two or more of them, and they are hereby [authorized
and] required, by Writing under their Hands, to order
the Fellies of all Waggons, Wains, Carts, or other
Carriages, which are or ought to be of the Breadth of
Gage herein before directed and prescribed, to be measured
[and gagged] at any Weighing Engine, or at any
Turnpike or Toll-gate, erected or to be erected upon any
Part of the Turnpike Road in or upon which such
Waggon, Wain, Cart, or Carriage respectively, shall
travel, pass, or be drawn.

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