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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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The present charged and part of the method of working
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on the said Roads are, that every Cart is paid Ten shillings
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a day and is attended by two Persons the one to fill the Cart
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and the other to drive And he that fills is unemployed
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till the return of the Cart, It is therefore Ordered that
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a convenient Number of Labourers be employed to fill
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all the Carts belonging to the work and that each Cart
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be attended only by one Person to drive it, whereby much
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Money will be Saved in Carriage; For when one Man if
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taken away from each Cart it may work for Nine
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Shillings a day or less and the work may be better
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done.
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Another part of the method of working is to allow
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five Loads at most to be a sufficient days work for
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each Cart altho' in many places the distances
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between the Loading and unloading are so Short
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that each Cart may with much ease carry many
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more, It is therefore Ordered that the Surveyors
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take care that each Cart every day it is employed
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carry as many Loads as is reasonable.
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That no Teams work in the Winter Season, but
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in Cases of necessity, because they are not able to do
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above half a days work.
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Many inconveniencies may arise from the present
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method of suffering Farmers to be Surveyors, And in
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Case any Farmer shall be employed in such Office
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hereafter; It is Ordered That neither he nor any
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other Surveyor be suffered to work his own Teams
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for the Repair of the Roads belonging to the
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Turnpike.
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That no Forreigners be suffered to work their
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Teams on the Roads and that only such Farmers as
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are chargeable to the Highways in the severall
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Parishes within the Turnpikes be employed in or
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