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impracticable to cause the same to be repaired or kept so unless by a
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contract for 21 Years at the least with some substantial Paviour who it was
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imagined might (as the Act then stood) undertake to discharge the Debt
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and to pave the whole in the best manner, in consideration whereof and
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of giving security for the due and well performance of such contract, the
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Whole produce of the Toll to be assigned except £20 P Ann reserved for
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a Collector to be appointed by the Commissioners by whose orders the said
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Paviour should be paid quarterly and in Order to its being properly paved
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a standing Committee was to be appointed of the Neighbouring Justices
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to oversee the same to give notice of the defects and to order the same to be
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amended in causes of Neglect, and it was submitted whether, as the
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surplus of the said Toll or Duty is by the Act vested in the Justices of the
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peace for this County they might dispose of the whole duty for a term
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of Years without which it would be worth no persons while to lay
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out so much Money as would be necessary to repair the same, Get if
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the said Act was not thought sufficient it was proposed that application
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should be made to Parliament for that purpose Whereby the allowance
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of £10. and £20. to the Agent and Collector were disallowed and determined
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that the Collector in lieu of his allowance should in future have 4s in
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the pound arising by the said Toll for receiving and rendring an
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Account upon Oath at every Easter Session That Toll Posts should be
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set down with the Inscriptions as above And it was referred to the same
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Committee to treat with a Paviour for repairing Etc for any number of Years
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and to receive proposals for the same and to report at the next Session
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and all other matters not decided on referred back to the Committee
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An Order of the 26th. February 1729 made upon the
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Second report of the Committee in which report it is said That Toll posts had
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been set down as directed by the last Order that publick notice had been given
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for receiving proposals for paving and keeping in Repair
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lying within the Toll posts lately set up for the Term of Twenty One Years and
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to leave it in good repair at the Expiration of the Term that the Committee
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