impracticable to cause the same to be repaired or kept so unless by a
contract for 21 Years at the least with some substantial Paviour who it was
imagined might (as the Act then stood) undertake to discharge the Debt
and to pave the whole in the best manner, in consideration whereof and
of giving security for the due and well performance of such contract, the
Whole produce of the Toll to be assigned except £20 P Ann reserved for
a Collector to be appointed by the Commissioners by whose orders the said
Paviour should be paid quarterly and in Order to its being properly paved
a standing Committee was to be appointed of the Neighbouring Justices
to oversee the same to give notice of the defects and to order the same to be
amended in causes of Neglect, and it was submitted whether, as the
surplus of the said Toll or Duty is by the Act vested in the Justices of the
peace for this County they might dispose of the whole duty for a term
of Years without which it would be worth no persons while to lay
out so much Money as would be necessary to repair the same, Get if
the said Act was not thought sufficient it was proposed that application
should be made to Parliament for that purpose Whereby the allowance
of £10. and £20. to the Agent and Collector were disallowed and determined
that the Collector in lieu of his allowance should in future have 4s in
the pound arising by the said Toll for receiving and rendring an
Account upon Oath at every Easter Session That Toll Posts should be
set down with the Inscriptions as above And it was referred to the same
Committee to treat with a Paviour for repairing Etc for any number of Years
and to receive proposals for the same and to report at the next Session
and all other matters not decided on referred back to the Committee

An Order of the 26th. February 1729 made upon the
Second report of the Committee in which report it is said That Toll posts had
been set down as directed by the last Order that publick notice had been given
for receiving proposals for paving and keeping in Repair the Haymarket
lying within the Toll posts lately set up for the Term of Twenty One Years and
to leave it in good repair at the Expiration of the Term that the Committee