Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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10th June 1713 - 17th October 1721

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the like inconveniencys and abuses mentioned in the
said Report, for the future and did further Order that
the said Trustees should on or before the first day of
this present General Quarter Sessions of the peace holden
for this County transmit to the Clerk of the peace of
this County, an Extract, State and Accompt of what
Moneys had been received and paid for and on account
of the said Turnpike, and also of several other
matters and things in the said Order mentioned To
the intent that the same might be laid before his
Majestys Justices of the peace for this County
assembled at this present Quarter Sessions, As by
the said Order relation being thereunto had more
fully doth appear Now for as much as it appeareth
to this Court that neither the said Trustees now
their Under Officers; Agents or Servants, have
complied with the said last mentioned Order or
performed or observed the Rules or Directions
therein contained. This Court for the better regulacon
of their proceedings in relation to the Repair of the
said Highways, and for obtaining an Accompt of the
Moneys received and paid for the Repair thereof,
and of their management of the Trust in them
reposed, and for preventing abuses thereof for the
time to come, Doth by virtue of the power given by
the said Act of Parliament Order as followeth (Vizt.)

That there be twenty five Bushells of Ballast
measured and put into every Cart that is employed
on the Roads; and when he Cart is filled That the
Headboard, Tailboard, and Sideboard be marked just
above the Ballast (so that after the Carts are marked
they may be filled without fraud) And that no Cart be
suffered to Work that is not so marked.




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