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<p n="1642"> For remedying these inconveniences, it is submitted, that application should be made to<lb></lb>
Parliament for an Act to amend the aforesaid Statutes, by enabling Justices in Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions to empower their Surveyors to get materials for the repair of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50964_geo841">County Bridges</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
Roads at the ends thereof, and such other Works as Inhabitants of Counties are bound to<lb></lb>
support and maintain, and also to pursue measures for purchasing land necessary for<lb></lb>
widening Bridges and Roads, and other County Works, in as ample a manner as Turnpike<lb></lb>
Trustees or their Surveyor are empowered<obscured></obscured>
by virtue of the Act<obscured></obscured>
reating such Trusts,<lb></lb>
It may possibly be said that a Surveyor of county Bridges is a<obscured></obscured>
of Highways, and<lb></lb>
is invested with all necessary Powers under the Act of 13. Geo. 3; but it is submitted that<lb></lb>
this Statute has relation only to Parish Surveyors, appointed by Justices at Special Sessions,<lb></lb>
within their respective limits, and does not extend to Surveyors for Counties, appointed by<lb></lb>
Justices in General Sessions.</p>
<p n="1643">The Act proposed should also authorize and empower Justices in Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
to direct Actions to be brought in the name of the Clerk of the Peace, Treasurer of the<lb></lb>
County, or other public Officer for damages done to County Bridges, or other County<lb></lb>
Works, or incurred by the non-performance of Contracts for building or repairing the <lb></lb>
same, and to compound and agree such actions, and to settle the damages by arbitration.</p>
<p n="1644">This Bill may be brought in on motion as a General Bill, and passed at the Public<lb></lb>
Expence. It will be only necessary should the measure be thought advisable, that the<lb></lb>
Justices at their General Quarter Sessions, should order application to be made to County<lb></lb>
Members for their support to the Bill, and for their assistance to make it as complete and<lb></lb>
perfect as possible.</p>
<p n="1645">It may deserve consideration, whether it may not be advisable to apply of powers,<lb></lb>
to enable Justices to direct Actions to be brought, and Indictments to be preferred, in<lb></lb>
the name of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50964_occ417">Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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, or other Public Officer, respecting Timber, Brick,<lb></lb>
Stone, or other Personal Property belonging to Counties. It is true the Surveyor, or<lb></lb>
other Person possessed, may maintain Actions or Indictments, as having a special<lb></lb>
property, but it may happen that property may be stolen, taken away or injured, in<lb></lb>
which a right by possession cannot be proved.This latter point however it submitted<lb></lb>
to consideration only, without much stress on its importance.</p>
<p n="1646">September, 1799.</p>
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