36 WESTMORLAND AGRICULTURE, 1800-1900 



Cows or neat Cattle the sum of ten pence per score : and for every 

 drove of Calves, Hogs, Sheep, or Lambs the siim of five pence per 

 score." The money so raised was to be applied by the trustees " to 

 and for the Repairing of the Roads." The sum of " one penny 

 and no more to be paid for each and every Horse, Mare, Gelding, 

 Mule or Ass laden or unladen and not drawing between the Towns 

 of Kirkby in Kendal and Sedbergh." ToUs were to be paid not 

 more than once a day, but for evading payment, on conviction 

 before the Justices, a fine of 40s. was to be paid, half of which was 

 to go to the informant and the other moiety to mending the roads. 

 The trustees had also power to take material without pajmient for 

 the repair of the roads out of any brook, river, waste, or common 

 ground, and if this was not sufficient, from any other land (not 

 being a house or garden), paying such sum of money as the trustees 

 thought reasonable, or on appeal to Quarter Sessions, such sum 

 as the Justices might decide. 



They were given power to drain on to adjoining land and to open 

 courses on such land in order to drain the road ; grub up, cut down, 

 lop or top any trees or bushes growing in roads or hedges or banks 

 adjacent; widen or turn roads and purchase land for the same ; if 

 no agreement as to cost was come to between the parties damages 

 had to be settled by juries. They had power to borrow money. 

 Exemption to pay toll was extended : — to persons going to any elec- 

 tion of a Knight of the Shire, from one day before or one day after 

 the election ; to any waggon, wain, cart, &c., carrying material for the 

 repair of the road, or any dung, lime, mould, compost, coals, wood, 

 heath, furze, Ung, turf, or peat for fuel or ploughs, harrows, or 

 implements of husbandry, or material for erecting new or repairing 

 old houses, or any corn or grain to be ground at a mill or used in 

 houses in any parish where the roads lie, or any horse or beast of 

 burden laden with milk ; to any person going to church or chapel on 

 Sundays, or funerals, or for horses or cattle going to water, or to be 

 shod within two mUes of a gate ; or to any post horse carrying the 

 mails or any horse or carriage belonging to officers or soldiers or 

 vagrants sent with passes. Persons were stUl liable to Statute 

 Work on the roads, but with power to compound for such work. 

 Mile stones were to be erected by the trustees. 



