SUt. I. THE COUNTY OF FIFE. 289 



by another clause, it is expressly provided, that 

 the funds, to be levied by virtue of this act, sh'all 

 be disposed of by the trustees in repaying the 

 money borrowed, and in making, repairing, and 

 keeping in repair, the said roads : Declaring al- 

 ways, that the funds of each parish shall be ap- 

 plied in repaying the money borrowed, on the 

 credit of the sum levied in said parish, and in- 

 terest of said sum, and to the sinking fund for 

 discharging the debt thereon, and in making and 

 repairing the roads in that parish, and in no 

 other way. 



It is, however, provided, that any heritor or 

 heritors, possessing three-fourths of a parish, or 

 the dominion utilc^ to be ascertained by the num- 

 ber of their plough-gates, may apply, if they 

 shall think it proper and necessary, the money 

 Levied in such parish, or the money borrowed on 

 the credit thereof, to the roads adjoining to or 

 connected with the parish. And the trustees 

 are authorised to allocate the money levied with- 

 in the territories of royal burghs upon the diffe- 

 rent roads leading thereto, to the extent of two 

 miles from said burghs, whether the roads, to 

 which the same is applied, be within the parish- 

 es where the conversion-money is exigible, or 

 not. 



The expence of building bridges on the boun- 

 daries between two contiguous parishes, is to be 

 defrayed by the parishes between which they 

 form the junction, in proportion to the number 

 of their plough-gates. It is also provided by 

 this act, that when the expence of rebuilding or 

 repairing any bridge within the county exceeds 

 80 L, the one-half shall be paid by the diftric$ 

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