9th December 1773

might (as the Act then stood) undertake to discharge the Debt and to pave
the whole in the best manner; in consideration where of and of giving
Security for the due and well performance of such contract, the whole
Produce of the Toll to be assigned except £20 per Annum reserved for a
Collector to be appointed by the Commission, by whose order 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 Defects and to order the same to be amended in
cases 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; but if the said Act was not thought
Sufficient it was proposed that application should be made to Parliaments
for that Purpose. Whereby the Allowance of £10 & £20 to the agent and
Collector were disallowed and determined; that the Collector in lien of
his allowance should in future should have 4s in the Pound arrising 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
& 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 reports
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 setup for the term of 21 Years and to leave.
it in good repair at the expiration of the Term That the Committee had
unanimously approved of the Proposal delivered in by Mr John Mist< no role >
which Proposal bears date 12th Feby then Instant in which he proposed to
Pave the Haymarket and keep the same in repair for 21 Years from thence