Strictures on Road Police,: Containing Views of the Present Systems, by which Roads are Made and Repaired, Together with Sketches of Its Progress in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Earliest to the Present Time, with an AppendixArcher, 1818 - 231 pages |
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abuses act of Philip advantage allowed amendment appointed ascertained attention bridges Britain carriages clauses collector considered corvees county at large county or barony county treasurer damages defects direction ditches drains Dublin effective employed enacted estimates execution expenditure expense feet wide fences foot-paths frauds George George II Grand Jury granted Henry VI highways horses improvement judge of assize Juries may present justices kingdom laid land laws less levied lines of road Major Taylor maps materials ment necessary neglect notice nuisances oath obtained occupiers overseers paid parish particular passed penalty perch persons Post road post towns present system proper proprietors public roads Quarter Sessions raised reign render repairing roads Road police roads in Ireland Scotland Section sentments sessions six days specified statute labour system stones sufficient repair superintending survey surveyor system in Ireland thereof tion tolls towns traffic travellers trinoda necessitas turnpike roads widened width
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Page 31 - ... there is, perhaps, no circumstance more interesting to men in a civilized state than the perfection of the means of interior communication.
Page 41 - Essex ; and, albeit, we were to pass through the wastest and wildest parts of all the North, yet had we only for our guard six or seven score foot, and fifty or three score horse, which is an argument of a good time, and of a confident Deputy. For, in former times, when the state enjoyed the best peace and security, no Lord Deputy did ever venture himself into those parts without an army of eight hundred or a thousand men.
Page 216 - Thus, when a hill has an ascent of no more than one foot in thirty, the thirtieth part of the whole weight of the carriage, of the load, and of the horses, must be lifted up. whilst they advance thirty feet. In doing this, one thirtieth part of the whole load continually resists the horses...
Page 4 - ... to him we owe that masterpiece of judicial polity, the subdivision of England into tithings and hundreds, if not into counties ; all under the influence and administration of one supreme magistrate, the king ; in whom, as in a general reservoir, all the executive authority of the law was lodged ; and from whom justice was dispersed to every part of the nation by distinct yet communicating ducts and channels; which wise institution has been preserved for near a thousand years unchanged, from Alfred's...
Page 167 - Jail, in each thirty-five feet of the length thereof, if the same be practicable, without causing such a great increase of distance, as to delay considerably the carriage of the mails; and if the same be not practicable, then such surveyor shall find out and survey the most practicable line which shall be nearest in its ascent or descent, to such proportion of height and falL...
Page 72 - FOR a country, so very far behind us as Ireland, to have got suddenly so much the start of us in the article of roads, is a spectacle that cannot fail to strike the English traveller exceedingly.
Page 32 - House, occasionally appointed, however zealous in the cause. Such great objects, which would add millions to the national income, and would increase the comfort of every individual in the kingdom, can only be successfully carried through by a great and permanent Institution...
Page 119 - ... town. They are upon that account the greatest of all improvements. They encourage the cultivation of the remote, which must always be the most extensive circle of the country. They are advantageous to the town, by breaking down the monopoly of the country in its neighbourhood. They are advantageous even to that part of the country. Though they introduce some rival commodities into the old market, they open many new markets to its produce.
Page 10 - III.'s charter; where we only find that scutages or escuage should be taken as they were used to be taken in the time of Henry II. ; that is, in a reasonable and moderate manner. Yet afterwards by statute 25 Edw. I. c. 5, 6, and many subsequent statutes...
Page 212 - And further, it is commanded that highways leading from one market town to another shall be enlarged, whereas bushes, woods, or dykes be, so that there be neither dyke, tree, nor bush whereby a man may lurk to do hurt within two hundred foot of the one side and two hundred foot on the other side of the way...