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Ad General' Quarterial' Session Pacis Dui ' Regis tent' pro Com' Middlesex' apnd Hick's-Hall in St.John
Street in Com' prxd' per adjourn die Jovis scilt' nono die July Anno Regni Dom' Georgy nunc
Regis Magnx Britanix, C. quinto, coram Whitelock Bulstrode< no role > , Armigero ; Jacobo Misson< no role > , Milite ;
Martino Ryder< no role > , Thoma Woodcock< no role > , Isaaco Tillard< no role > , D'oyly Michel< no role > , Thoma Railton< no role > , Reginaldo
Marriot< no role > Samuel Jones< no role > , Armigeris ; Etc alys socys suis Justic; dict' Dom' Regis ad pacem in Com
prxd' conservand' necnon ad diver's Felonias Transgressiones C alia malefacta in Com' perpetrat'
audiend' Etc terminand' Assign', Etc Ordinat est P psat justic & Cur Cui Put sequit scilt

WHEREAS by Order made at the general Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for this County by adjournment on the Twenty second
Day of April, in the fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King GEORGE , It was referred unto Robert Thornhill< no role > , Mathew Holworthy< no role > ,
Narcissus Luttrell< no role > , Charles Medlycot< no role > , John Metcalf< no role > , Joseph Hayne< no role > , William Prestley< no role > , John Clark< no role > , Daniel Dolins< no role > , William Dawsonne< no role > , Thomas Burdus< no role > , and
Alexander Ward< no role > , Esquires ; Twelve of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for this County, or any three of them to inquire of the Duties and Toll
received, in pursuance of one Act of Parliament made in the Third Year of his said Majesty's Reign, Entituled, An Act for repairing the High
Ways from several Places therein mentioned, leading towards Highg at Gate-house, and Hampstead, in the County of Middlesex; And for electing Trustees, for keep-
ing up a sufficient Number for the repairing the High-Ways upon the Roads, from Highgate Gate-house to Barnet Block-house; and also of the High-Ways between
Kilburne- bridge and Sparrows- Hern, in the County of Hertford: And Case they should find any misapplication of the Moneys levied by the said Act, or any A buses
of the Power and Authority thereby granted; thereupon to certify he same to the Justices of the PEace at their then next general Quarter Session to be holden
for this County; the time limited for transacting Which Matters Was by Order made at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for this County, by
Adjournment on the Sixteenth Day of October now last enlarged, until the then next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for the same County. AND
WHEREAS the said Robert Thornhill< no role > , John Metcalf< no role > , Joseph Hayne< no role > , William Prestley< no role > , Alexander Ward< no role > , John Clark< no role > , Thomas Burdus< no role > , Daniel Dolins< no role > and Narcissus Luttrell< no role >
did make their Report in Writing, under their Hands, unto his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this County assembled, at the said next General quater Sessions
of the Peace, being holden for the same County by adjournment on the Nineteenth Day of January now last past , touching the Matters referred as aforesaid. And
the Court then upon Consideration had of the Matters contained in the said Report did agree to the said Report; but to the Intent that the Trustees therein men-
tioned might be heard touching any Matters therein specified (if they should think fit.) The Court did Order, that a Copy of the said Report should be laid
before the said Trustees, at their next meeting, after the Twenty seventh Day of January aforesaid, And that the said Trustees might be heard touching the Mat-
ters contained in the said, Report, at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for this County by adjournment, at Hick's Hall in St.John-street in the said
County, on Tuesday the Seventh Day of April , now last past, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon, if they should think fit; And the Court did recommend it to
the said Trustees, that they should in the mean time abserve the Rules set down in the latter Part of the said Report, and Order the same to be observed and per
formed by their under Officers, Agents, and SErvants; WITH a Copy of WHich said last mentioned Order, and also of the said Report, the said Trustees were
duly served, as appeared unto the Court at the Same Quarter Sessional mentioned upon Oath, notwithstanding Which the said Trustees did not think sit to attend
the Same Court, or send any Answer to the matters contained in the said Report at the Day, time and Place limited in, and by the said last mentioned Order of
Sessions, but on the Day following, viz. on the Eighth Day of April as resaid, the said Trustees sent to the Court their ANswer in Writing to the same Report, by the
Hands of Edward Byollin< no role > their Clerk , Signed by the said Byollin< no role > by their Direction; And upon reading of the said Report, and of several Papers thereby referred to, and
of Several Affidavits relating to some Matters of Face Contained therein, and also upon reading the said Answer, and on mature Deliberation had concerning the same
The Court at the Same Quarter Session Was of Opinion, that the Trustees had not answered the Matters contained in the said Report, BUT that the said Answer was
evasive and insufficient, and did ratify and Confirm the said Report of the said Justices of the Peace, And by virtue of the Power given by the said Act, did
make an Order therein containing Several Rules and Directions relating to the Repair of the said High-Ways, for preventing the like Inconveniencies and Abuses
mentioned in the said Report for the futher; and did further Order, that the said Trustees should on ao before the fifty Day of of this present General quarter Sessions
of the Peace holden for this County, transmit to the Clerk of the Peace of this County, An Extract, state, and Accompt of What Moneys had been received
and Paid for and on accompt of the Said Trunpike; and also of Several other Matters and Things in the said Order mentioned, TO the intent that the same might
be laid before his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this County assembled at this present Quarter Sessions, AS by the said Order, relation being thereunto had
more fully doth appear, NOW forasmuch as it appeareth to this Court, that neither the said Trustees nor their under Officers, Agents, or Servants, have complied
with the Said last mentioned Order, or performed or observed the Rules or Directions therein contained. THIS Court for the better regulation of their Proceedings,
in relation to the Repair of the said High-Ways, and for obtaining an Accompt of the Moneys received and paid for the Repair thereof, and of their Management
of the Trust in them reposed, and for preventing Abuses thereof for the Time to come, DOTH, by virtue of the Power given by the said Act of Parliament
order as followeth, viz

THAT there be Twenty Five Bushels of Ballast measured and put into every Cart is employed on the Roads; and When the Cart is filled, That the
Head-board, Tail-board, and Side-board be marked Just above the last (so that after the Carts are marked they may be filled Without Fraud)And that no
Cart be suffered to Work that is not so marked.

ANOTHER part of the Method of Working, is to allow five Losid Roads are, that every Cart is/Paid Ten Shillings a Day, and is attended by two persons,
tween the Loading and Unloading are so short, that each Cart may Wi [..]
Cart every Day it is employed, carry as many Loads as is reasonable.

THAT no Teams work in the Winter Season but in Cases of Nec [..]

MANY Inconveniencies may arise from the present Method of suff [..]
after, It is Ordered, That neither he nor any other Surveyor be suffer [..]

THAT no Foreigners be Suffered to Work their Teams on the Roads [..]
the Turnpikes, be employed in or about repairing the Same, unless it
fuse to Work as cheap as Foreigners, for it is but reasonable that as they

THAT John Marsb< no role > , Nicholas Halsted< no role > , Gilbert Edwards< no role > , Francis Shit< no role > [..]
Contrary to the Orders of the Trustees, be not for the future employee

THAT the People inhabiting in the Parishes adjoining to the Road b [..]
Foreigners.

THAT the Trustees (as in Custom of other Turnpikes) do fron [..]
thereby have the better Opportunity to look to the Amendment of

AND it is futher Ordered by this Court that [..]

[..] employed till the Cart. It is therefore Ordered that a Convenient Number of
that each Cart be attended only byone Person to drive it; Whereby much Money Will be
it may Work for Nine shillings a Day or less, and the Work may be better done.

[..] s at most to be a sufficient Days Work for each Cart, altho' in many Places the Distances be-
[..] th much Ease carry many more: It is therefore Ordered, That the Surveyors take Care that each

ffity, because they are not able to do above half a Days Work

[..] ing Farmers to be Surveyors; And in Case any Farmer shall be employed in such Office here
d to Work his Own Teams for the Repair of the Roads belonging to theTurnpike.

[..] and that only such Farmers as are Chargeable to the HighWays in the Several Parishes Within
[..] appen that there are not Farmers sufficient to be found on the Roads, or that such Farmers re-
[..] pay to the Turnpike, they should be preferred before Foreigners.

[..] tle, and all others that have been detected of not doing their duty, and of Carrying short Loads
in any Work relating to the Turnpike.

[..] employed in all the Works on the Road, preferable to Foreigners, they Working as cheap as

[..] Time to Time adjourn themselves to proper Houses adjoining to the Roads, that they may
[..] Roads, and to see that the Offices do their respective Duties.

[..] and that they do from henceforth Well and truly