For remedying these inconveniences, it is submitted, that application should be made to
Parliament for an Act to amend the aforesaid Statutes, by enabling Justices in Quarter
Sessions to empower their Surveyors to get materials for the repair of County Bridges , and
Roads at the ends thereof, and such other Works as Inhabitants of Counties are bound to
support and maintain, and also to pursue measures for purchasing land necessary for
widening Bridges and Roads, and other County Works, in as ample a manner as Turnpike
Trustees or their Surveyor are empowered [..] by virtue of the Act [..] reating such Trusts,
It may possibly be said that a Surveyor of county Bridges is a [..] of Highways, and
is invested with all necessary Powers under the Act of 13. Geo. 3; but it is submitted that
this Statute has relation only to Parish Surveyors, appointed by Justices at Special Sessions,
within their respective limits, and does not extend to Surveyors for Counties, appointed by
Justices in General Sessions.

The Act proposed should also authorize and empower Justices in Quarter Sessions
to direct Actions to be brought in the name of the Clerk of the Peace, Treasurer of the
County, or other public Officer for damages done to County Bridges, or other County
Works, or incurred by the non-performance of Contracts for building or repairing the
same, and to compound and agree such actions, and to settle the damages by arbitration.

This Bill may be brought in on motion as a General Bill, and passed at the Public
Expence. It will be only necessary should the measure be thought advisable, that the
Justices at their General Quarter Sessions, should order application to be made to County
Members for their support to the Bill, and for their assistance to make it as complete and
perfect as possible.

It may deserve consideration, whether it may not be advisable to apply of powers,
to enable Justices to direct Actions to be brought, and Indictments to be preferred, in
the name of the Clerk of the Peace , or other Public Officer, respecting Timber, Brick,
Stone, or other Personal Property belonging to Counties. It is true the Surveyor, or
other Person possessed, may maintain Actions or Indictments, as having a special
property, but it may happen that property may be stolen, taken away or injured, in
which a right by possession cannot be proved.This latter point however it submitted
to consideration only, without much stress on its importance.

September, 1799.