Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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10th June 1713 - 17th October 1721

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That no Farmer be a Surveyr. or if it be thought proper
to make a Farmer a Surveyor, That no Surveyrs. be
Suffered to Work his own Teams

That no Forreigners ought to be Suffered to Work their
Teams on the Roads, and that only such Farmers that
do the Statute work ought to be employed, Unless it
happens that there are not Farmers Sufficient to be
found on the Roads or that such Farmers refuse to
work as cheap as Forreigners, for it is but reasonable
that as they pay to the Turnpike they Should be
Preferred before Forreigners

That Marsh Halsted & others that have been detected
of not doing their Duty and of carrying short Leads
contrary to the Orders of the Trustees be not for the
future employed in any work relating to the Turnpike

That the People inhabiting in the Parishes adjoining to
the Road be employed in all the Works on the Road
Preferable to Forreigners they working as cheap as
Forreigners.

That the Trustees (as is the Custome of other Turnpikes)
do from time to time adjourn themselves to Proper
houses adjoining to the Roads that they may thereby
have the better opportunity to look to the amendmt.
of the said Roads and to See that the Officers do
their Duty

R. Thornhill
Jon. Metcalfe< no role >
J Hayne
Will Prestley< no role >
A Ward
John Clarke< no role >
Tho: Burdus< no role >
Dan: Dolins< no role >
Nar. Luttrell< no role > :




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