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mary diligence, a hardship which had formerly 

 been soitttimes felt and complained of. 



It is further enacted, That the trustees of the 

 several districts shall have power to borrow mo- 

 ney for making and repairing the roads in their 

 respective districts, on the security of the funds 

 leviable by virtue of this act ; but with this ex- 

 press provision, that no sum shall be borrowed, 

 except it clearly appears that the funds, upon 

 the credit of which the money is borrowed, are 

 sufficient not only to pay the legal interest, but 

 to afford also a sum equal to 5 per cent, per an- 

 num of the sum proposed to be borrowed, to be 

 set apart as a sinking fund for extinguishing the 

 debt contracted. The trustees are empowered 

 to assign the funds leviable by this act, in secu- 

 rity for the money borrowed on the credit there- 

 of. And the assignations are made transferable 

 by a simple indorsation upon the back. 



And in order to give further aid to the funds 

 provided by this and former acts of Parliament, 

 the act before us empowers the trustees to ex- 

 tend the assessment of 20 s. Scots imposed by 

 former acts, upon every i oo 1. of valued rent in 

 the county, to 40 s. Scots, if this shall be found 

 necessary. 



With respect to the mode of laying out and 

 employing the conversion-money, it is enacted, 

 that the whole produce of the conversion of sta- 

 tute-labour, and the sums of money borrowed on 

 the credit thereof, shall be expended upon the 

 roads within the parishes respectively, from 

 which such conversions shall be levied, or on 

 which the interest of the money to be borrow- 

 ed shall be charged, and no otherwise. And, 



