284 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF cbap. XV. 



|:hey are enabled to encrease the number of toll-, 

 gates, and the amount of the duties ; and to bor- 

 row further sums on the credit thereof ; and al- 

 so, to make the additional roads specified in the 

 act. There is also a clause introduced into this 

 act, calculated to obviate an inconvenience felt 

 under the other. The trustees were authorised, 

 when they should borrow money for the roads, 

 to assign the duties of the toll-bars of the parti-* 

 ticular district for v hich the money was borrow- 

 ed, as security to^the lender. But no provision 

 \vas made for the conveyance of this as;>igna- 

 tion, and the trustees were not obliged to give 

 their own personal obligation for the money. 

 The consequence was, that when the lender 

 found it necessary to lift his money, he was o- 

 bliged to take possession of the tolls assigned to 

 him, and to draw the whole duties, until both 

 principal and interest should be paid. Such a 

 tedious and inconvenient mode of obtaining pay- 

 ment, discouraged people from lending money 

 on such security. Under this new act, how- 

 ever, the assignations of the toll-duties are made 

 transferable by a simple indorsation. And, 

 therefore, as the security is perfectly good, any 

 person, who has money to spare, will the more, 

 readily lend it on this footing, as he knows he 

 can transfer at any time, when he finds the re- 

 payment of his money necessary. 



But notwithstanding the ample powers al- 

 ready granted, for making and repairing the 

 high roads, the trustees apprehended that they 

 might still be insufficient, and were of opinion, 

 that if the whole statute-labour of the county 

 were converted, upon equitable terms, into pay-, 

 merits of money, in place of the present services, 



