On the Holt/head and Shrewsbury Roads. 



-104 



fill cffccls would consummate their 

 own revolution, by enabling the re- 

 mainhig portion of mankind, by steam, 

 by gas, by rail- ways, or by some other 

 yet unknown conveyance, to emigrate 

 totally to the moon, — where, it might 

 be hoped, the inhabitants bad less en- 

 terprise and more sense. 



Thus would our present and favour- 

 ed residence be left to lie fallow a few 

 thousand of centuries, to renovate its 

 exhausted energies, and thus again be 

 rendered capable of affording new 

 blessings to a new race of inhabitants, 

 equally sagacious and benevolent as 

 ourselves. Jamrs Luckcock. 



Birmingham ; April 5, 1823. 



For the Monthly Mayazine. 



SHREWSBURY and HOLYHEAD ROADS. 



THE annual Report of the Commis- 

 sioners, appointed under an Act 

 of 59 Geo. HI. c. 30, § 89, for the 

 above line of road, has been laid before 

 Parliament (Paper No. 151, present 

 Session). It contains a general stati.'- 

 nient of the Income and Expenditure, 

 from 1st of February, 1822, to the 1st 

 of February, 1823, according to the 

 following abstract, viz. 

 Income. 

 Balance in Treasurer's hands, 



Feb.1,1822 of 492 12 7J 



Cash of the Treasurer of tlie 



County of Merioneth for 



one year's allowance, for 



the repairs of County 



Bridges of 20 



Cash of Treasurer 



for the County of 



Salop, for two 



yeai s 20 



Cash of Trustees of 



the Conway road, 



one year's allow- 

 ance 50 



Cash for Composi- 

 tion of Statute 



Duty.- .53 41 



Fines 4 3 



Sundries 10 5 



[June 1, 



Brought forward- 



Druid Gate 311 13 



Cor wen do. 431 9 



Llangollen do ]o8 3 



Whiteliurst do.- -293 5 



Llvvyn do. 2)5 13 



Qneen's-head do.. -407 

 Shrewsbury do. --513 15 

 Cash of ihe Proprie- 

 tors of the Regent 



coach, for Tolls, 



from Feb.1,1822, 



to Feb. 1,1823- -982 16 

 Do. of the Prince of 



Wales coach- •••982 16 

 Do. of the Chester 



coach 31 4 



Do. of the Van from 



Aug. 1822 21 



Receipts of Toll-houses heltveen 



Fell. 1, 1822,«n(/ Feb. 1, 1823. 



£ s. d. 



Cae'r Ceiliog Gate 144 9 7| 



Nont Gate 

 Llanfan ditto • • 

 Louisa do. - - • ■ 

 Tyn-twr do.- - • - 

 Tyn-y-ton do. - • 

 Bettws do. •• 

 Hcndre-issa do. 

 Cci nioge do. . ■ 



•160 12 

 • 146 4 

 -273 5 

 -149 19 

 -146 7 

 - 263 1 

 -223 15 

 -220 



• ofeso 1 

 4 



8^ 

 5 



6S 





 



-157 8 H 



-6,081 12 6j 



6,731 13 



Total Income ... 

 Expenditure. 

 In Road-repairs, &c. • • • • =£^3,992 

 Clerk : a year's salary (180/.) 



and travelling expenses • • 268 



Engineer's ditto, and ditto- • 



Incidents and Contingencies 



Messrs. Lloyd's Law Bill - • 



One year's Interest of Debt, 



and annual payments for 



repairs of br<tnch roads, to 



the 1st of August last, as 



by Treasurer's Account • • 



Messrs. Beck and Co. for the 



second instalment of their 



Loan, advanced for the 



discharge of Mr. Smith's 



mortgage 



In Treasurer's hands, Feb. 1, 

 1323 



268 O 



267 10 



57 19 



65 



3 



7 

 6 



7 

 



945 10 



49 8 7 



Can ied forward 



. 660 1 0\ 



786 12 S 



Total Expenditure .-G,73l 13 6I 

 For the 3,992/. Is. 4|f/. charged for 

 road-repairs, there is a detailed ac- 

 count, which states that 1,142/. Ts.d^d. 

 of the amount has been paid for labour 

 by day, and 906/. 8s. S\d. for breaking 

 stones by task, and cjuarryiiig apart ; 

 and the remainder of the items (fitty- 

 fivc in number) appear generally un- 

 exceptionable. The item which de- 

 mands attention is the 945/. 0*. lUrf. for 

 one year's interest of debt, and annual 

 payments for repairingof liranchroads. 

 The interest for debt should be stated 

 separately, and the amount of the debt 

 shown : the account is laid before Par- 

 liament but to little purpose, if such an 

 item is sufi'ered to pass without an ex- 

 planation being demanded. 



Another feature in the account, 

 which deserves attention, is that of 

 982/. IGs. each paid by two stage- 

 coaches for oue year's toll: the whole 

 line of road is only 109^ miles by the 



old 



