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relief, the faid juftices may exempt fuch poor and indigent perfon from the payment of all rates, 

 alignments, or compofitions whatfoever, 34 Geo. III. c. 74. f. 5. 



But if it appear to the juftices, at their fpecial feffions to be held in the week next after 

 Michaelmas quarter feffions, or at any other fpecial or petty feffions, held within the limits of 

 any pariih at which two or more juftices (hall be prefent, that, from the directions before given 

 for performing and compounding the ftatute-duty, there will be difficulty in procuring thene- 

 cefTary carriage, or a fufficient number of labourers for the repair of the highways in any par 

 ticular parifli within their limits, without paying high prices for the fame, it (hall be lawful for 

 fuch juftices to order the team duty hereby required, or fo much thereof as they think fit, to 

 be performed in kind, within every pariih, &c. except in refpecl of fuch teams as belong to 

 perfons who do not occupy lands, &c. of the annual value of . 30 within the fame ; and alfo 

 to order all fuch perfons as (hall gain their living by the wages of daily labour, or fuch part of 

 them as they (hall think fit, to perform fix days labour upon fuch highways in kind, either by 

 themfelves or others, in cafe fo many days duty (hall be required, upon being paid for fuch 

 labour the ufual wages given to labourers in fuch parifh, 34 Geo. III. c. 74. f. 6. 



But if part of fuch teams or labourers only are required, it (hall be directed by the faid order 

 of the juftice, in fome given proportion, as one half, third, or fourth part thereof ; and the fur- 

 veyor (hall, in that cafe, at a public veftryfor fuch pariih, put the names of all perfons liable to 

 fend fuch teams into one hat or box, and the names of all perfons liable to perform fuch la 

 bour into another hat or box, and fome inhabitant then prefent (hall draw out fuch number 

 from each as fhall be equal to the proportion ordered by the juftices,, and the perfon drawn (hall 

 perform fuch duty in kind for that year; and if fuch order fhall be made or continued in the 

 iubfequent year the fame method (hall be obferved, but the names drawn in the preceding 

 year (hall not be put into fuch hat or box ; and in every fucceeding year fuch method fhall be 

 obferved by fuch furveyor, fo as to render the duty to be performed in kind equal amongft the 

 perfons liable thereto ; which order of the juftices, fo far as the fame (hall be extended, (hall 

 fuperfede the power or liberty of compounding, and fhall be binding, and fhall continue in 

 force until difcharged or varied by the juftices at fome fubfequent fpecial feffions for the high 

 ways within fuch limit, to be held in the week next after Michaelmas quarter feffions, f. 6. 



And if any perfon (hall keep a team, and fhall not occupy lands, &c. of .30 per annum in 

 the parifh where he fhall refide, but fhall in part maintain his horfes and beafts of draught ufed 

 in fuch team upon lands in adjacent parifhes, it fhall be lawful for the juftices, at fome fpeciaj 

 feffions, to mitigate the duty or compofition, asthey think juft, 13 Geo. III. c. 78. f. 41. 



And the furveyor of every parifh fhall, on fome Sunday in November in every year, caufe ten 

 days notice at leaft to be given in the church or chapel, and if no church or chapel, then at 

 the moft public place there, and repeat the like notice in fuch church, &c. on the next fucceed 

 ing Sunday, of the time and place when and where the perfons permitted and inclined to com 

 pound may fignify to fuch furveyor their intention to compound ; and all perfons fignifying 

 the fame, who fhall then, or within one month after pay to fuch furveyor the compofition, (hall 

 be difcharged from the performance of fuch duty, which compofition fliall be employed by 



