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

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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 Foreigners for it is but reasonable that as they pay
to the Turnpike they should be preferred before foreigners

That Marsh Halsted Edwards Shittle and all others that have
bin detected of not doing their Duty and of carrying short Loads
contrary to the Orders of the Trustees be not for the future
employed in any Work relating to the Turn pike

That the people inhabiting in the Parishes adjoining to the
Road be employed in all the Works on the Road preferable
to Foreigners they Working as cheap as Foreigners.

That the Trustees (as is the Custome of other Turnpikes) do from
time to time adjourn themselves to proper Houses adjoyning
to the Roads that they may thereby have the better
opportunity to look to the Amendment of the said Roads
and to see that the officers do their Duty

And it is Ordered by this Court that this present Order be
forthwith transmitted to the said Trustees And that they do
from henceforth observe the same and cause the same
to be performed by their severall under Officers Agents
and Servants And It is further Ordered by this Court
that the said Trustees do cause an extract to be made from
their severall Books of what Moneys have been received
and paid for and on accompt of the said Turnpike and also
a State of the said Turnpike with regard to the income thereof,
and what year by Sumes are paid or to be paid to the several
Treasurers Clerks Collectors and Surveyors or other
Persons employed by the said Trustees, and also what
Gravell Ballast or other materialls for the repair of the
Highways hath been bought or contracted for, by whom,
of whom, and at what prices, and what Debt's are due
and owing from the said Trustees on accompt of the said
Turnpike together with a List of the Names of all such
Persons whose Teams have been or are employed by their
Surveyors for repair of the said Highways and the places
of their respective a boad, and the compositions that are or




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