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