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and powers granted to borrow money to a cer- 

 tain amount, upon the credit of the produce of 

 vsuch conversion, they would be enabled to ac- 

 complish the design with more expedition, and 

 with more complete effect. Application was, 

 therefore, made to Parliament in the same year 

 1797, and a separate act obtained, entitled, an 

 Act for regulating and converting the statute la- 

 bour in the county of Fife, and for more effec- 

 tually making and repairing the high-ways in 

 the said county. 



As this is an act, in which every individual in 

 the county is particularly interested, it may not ' 

 be improper here, to give a short abstract of it. 



By the act, the county is divided into four 

 districts ; viz. Cupar, St Andrews, Kirkaldy, and 

 Dunfermline. Trustees are appointed of the 

 same description with those in former acts of 

 this kind. The particular times of their annual 

 district, and general meetings are fixed, and lists 

 of roads are ordered to be made up for each pa- 

 rish, where they shall appear to be most neces- 

 sary, and to which the funds ought, in the first 

 instance, to be applied. 



In the conversion of the statute-labour, it is 

 enacted, that a plough gate shall be deemed e- 

 qual to 50 acres of land, whether plantation, 

 arable, or pasture-ground ; or, in the option of 

 the proprietor, to 70 1. of gross-rent, payable by 

 the occupier ; that 20 s. shall be the maximum 

 of conversion for a plough-gate ; the same sum 

 for every chaise with four wheels, drawn by two 

 horses, and let for hire ; I o s. for every chaise 

 with two wheels, drawn by one horse and let for 

 hire: Jos. for every cart drawn by two horses, and 



