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

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The present charged and part of the method of working
on the said Roads are, that every Cart is paid Ten shillings
a day and is attended by two Persons the one to fill the Cart
and the other to drive And he that fills is unemployed
till the return of the Cart, It is therefore Ordered that
a convenient Number of Labourers be employed to fill
all the Carts belonging to the work and that each Cart
be attended only by one Person to drive it, whereby much
Money will be Saved in Carriage; For when one Man if
taken away from each Cart it may work for Nine
Shillings a day or less and the work may be better
done.

Another part of the method of working is to allow
five Loads at most to be a sufficient days work for
each Cart altho' in many places the distances
between the Loading and unloading are so Short
that each Cart may with much ease carry many
more, It is therefore Ordered that the Surveyors
take care that each Cart every day it is employed
carry as many Loads as is reasonable.

That no Teams work in the Winter Season, but
in Cases of necessity, because they are not able to do
above half a days work.

Many inconveniencies may arise from the present
method of suffering Farmers to be Surveyors, And in
Case any Farmer shall be employed in such Office
hereafter; It is Ordered That neither he nor any
other Surveyor be suffered to work his own Teams
for the Repair of the Roads belonging to the
Turnpike.

That no Forreigners be suffered to work their
Teams on the Roads and that only such Farmers as
are chargeable to the Highways in the severall
Parishes within the Turnpikes be employed in or




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