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THAT there be Twenty Five Bushels of Ballast measured and puts into every Cart that is employed on the Roads; and when the Cart is filled, That the
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Head-board, Tail-board, and Side-board be marked just above the Ballast (so that after the Carts are marked they may be filled without Fraud) And that no
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Cart be suffered to work that is not so marked.
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THE present Charge 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,
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the one to fill the Cart, and the other do drive, and he that fills is un-employed till the Return of the Cart. It is Therefore Ordered that a Convenient Number of
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Labourers be employed to fill all the Carts belonging to the Work, an that each Cart be attended only by one Person to drive it whereby much Money will be
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saved in Carriage; for when one Man is taken away from each Cart it may work for Nine Shillings a Day or less, and the Work may be better done.
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ANOTHER Part of the Method of working, is to allow five Loads at most be a sufficient Days Work for each Cart, altho' in many Places the Distances be
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tween the Loading and Unloading are so short, that each Cart may with much Ease carry, may more: It is therefore Ordered, That the Surveyors take Care that each
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cart every Day it is employed, carry as many Loads as is reasonable.
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THAT no Teams work in the Whiter Seasons butter Cases of Necessity, because they are not able to do above half a Days Work.
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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 here
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after, It is Ordered, That neither he nor any other Surveyor be suffered to work his own Teams for the Repair for the Repair of the Roads belonging to the Turnpike.
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THAT no Foreigners be suffered to work their Teams on the Roads and that only such Farmers as are chargeable to the Highwasys in the Several Parishes within
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the Turnpikes, be employed in or about repairing the same, unless it uppen that there are not farmers sufficient to be found on the Roads, or that such Farmers re
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fuse to work as cheap as Foreigners, for it is but reasonable that as they may to the Turnpike, they should be prefered before Foreigners.
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John Marsh
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Nicholas Halsted
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Gilbert Edwards
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Francis Shit
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, and all other that have been detected of not doing their Duty, and of Carrying Short Loads
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in any Work relating to the Turpike.
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THAT the people inhabiting in the Parishes adjoining the Road be employed in all the Works on the Road, preferable to Foreigners, they working as cheap as
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Foreigners.
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THAT the Trustees (as is the Custom of other Turnpikes) do from Time to Time adjourn themselves to proper houses adjoining to the Roads, that they may
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thereby have the better Opportunity to look to the Amendment of
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said Roads, and to fee that the Officers do their respective Duties
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AND it is further Ordered by this Court, that Copies of this present Order be served upon the said Trustees; and that they do from henceforth well and truly
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observe and Perform the same, and cause the same to be well and tr
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y observed and performed by their Several Under Officers, Agents and Servants. AND it is
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further ordered by this Court, that the said Trustees do Cause an Extract to be made from their several Books of that Moneys have been received and paid for
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and on Account of the said Turnpike; and also a State of the said Turnpike with regard to the Income there of, and what yearly Sums are paid or to be paid to the
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several Treasurers, Clerks, Collectors and Surveyors, or other Persers employed by the said Tustees; and also what Gravel Ballast or other Materials for the
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Repair of the High-ways, have or hath been Bought or Contracted for; by whom, of whom, and at what Prices; and what Dabts are due and owing from
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the said Trustees, on Accompt of the said Turnpike, together with a Lift of the Names of all such Persons whose Teams have been or are employed by their
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Surveyors for Repair of the said High-ways, and the Places of their respective Aboad; and the Composition that are or have been made by them or their Sur
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veyors with any, and what Parishes or private Persons, and for what Sum or Sums of Money, and for what Reasons, AND that the said Trustees do, on
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or before the first Day of the now next ensuing General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden for this County, transmit such Extract, State and Accompt,
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to the Clerk of the Peace of this County, To the intent that the same may be laid before his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this County, to be assembled
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at the Sessions last mentioned.
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