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New. TRUSTEES. Orig.
SECT.II
ART. VII
If a Gate be set up or continued by Trustees without authority, the Quarter Sessions shall upon complaint
in a summary way, order the Sherriff to remove it.
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Observations
The tautology of this section, tho' perhaps the highest in
it's degree, is the most innocent in its kind, of any
throughout the Act. It generates not a single
doubt: item or a dozen lines of "Que genus" or "As
inpraxenti" scattered between the words that are significant
could not be more harmless.
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+ Else it were to little purpose he should have it.
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ART. IX.
Trustees shall order their Surveyors to set up (where there are
not any such already) the erections following. 1. At places where
several Highways meet, a Stones or Posts indicating by an inscription
in large characters the names & distances of the next Market
Towns and other considerable places to which they lead.
2. As the approaches to such parts as are subject to deep
or dangerous floods, Stones or Posts for indicating by a graduated
scale the depth of the water in the deepest point, & for directing
safest track. 3. At every miles interval, Milestones
indicating the distances from the principal towns & places
on the road.
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Observations
As the execution of this clause admitts some varities through local
causes; hence it is that Surveyors must take their directions not
immediately from the Act, but from Trustees, tis therefore to the
latter that it must be addressed in the first instance.
The figures used for Milestones & Direction Posts, in
I believe more frequently Roman numerals than Cyphers:
yet the latter seem universally to deserve the preference, As
being more generally used and understood, they are better for the poor
who travel slow: as taking up less room, & therefore being easilier
apprehended at a glance, they are better for the rich who travel quick
Let any one suppose himself to be whisking by a Milestone with
these two numbers on it [CCLXXXViii.288.] in a Postchair &
four, & then think which of them he would be the post likely to carry
with him.
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ART. X.
Trustees shall give order concerning the apportionment of
Tolls to the breadth of Wheels, according to Sect: Art.
& to the number of Beasts drawing, according to Act . . . . : &
shall confirm in in admitting of exemptions to Art. & in making
compositions to Art....
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Observations
With this Article finishes that part of the Section in which
the number of Trustees stands undetermined. The remainder
exhibits those wherein the numbers are determined, in the order
of decreasing series of those numbers.
It is not improper to insert Articles here referred to (together
with such others relating to Carriers as Trustees have the special superintendance of)
in the chap Section intitled from that class of persons, for the reason opposite to that which
makes it otherwise as we just now observed) in the instance of Surveyors: and it
is necessary, that they may have time to order the implements of their business (their
carriages, their homes &c) in conformity. This they would not have, if the first notice
to them of the regulations respecting those implements were to arise from the Rates &
Orders stuck up at Turnpike Gates. It were to little purpose for a man to know
The Sections of the Original, corresponding to the several Articles of the
New Draught referred to in this, or inserted to face those Articles, in the
Section concerning CARRIERS
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