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

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the same This Court is of Opinion that the Trustees have not
answered the matters Contained in the said Report, But
that the said Answer is evasive and insufficinent, And this
Court doth ratify and confirm the said Report of the said
Justices of the Peace, And for preventing the like
inconveniencys and abuses mentioned in the said
Report for the future doth by vertue of the power given by the said Act Order as followeth

That there be Twenty five Bushell of Ballast measured and
put into every Cart that is employed on the Road and when
the Cart is filled let the head Board Tail Board and Side
Board be markt just above the Ballast with such a mark
as shall be thought proper And that no Cart be suffered to
Work that is not to markt. So that after the Carts are
markt they may be filled without fraud

Every Cart that is employed is paid Ten Shillings a day and
should have two men to attend the Cart one to fill and the
other to drive. So that he that is employed to fill must
Stand Still till the return of the Cart. Therefore let Labourers
be employed to fill the Carts thereby much would be saved
for the Carts having but one Man may Work for Nine
Shillings a day or less and the Work better done

Care should be taken by the surveyors that each Cart
carried as many Load within the time appointed as was
reasonable. Whereas now the Course is to reckon five
Load at most within the days Work where in many
cases the distances being short the same Carts might
with ease carry many more

No Teams ought to work in Winter time but in Case of
necessity because it is plain they are not able to do
above half a days Work

That no farmer be a Surveyor or if it be thought proper
to make a Farmer a Surveyor that no Surveyor be
suffered to Work his own Teams

That no foreigners ought to be suffered to Work their Teams
on the Roads and that only such Farmers that are chargeable
to the Highways in the several parishes
within the Turnpikes ought to be employed




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