AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF chap, XV. 



within which the bridge is situated, and the o- 

 ther half by the other three districts, in propor- 

 tion to their several valued rents. But the ne- 

 cessity of rebuilding or repairing such bridge 

 must be allowed, and an order given for that 

 purpose, by a general meeting of the county. 



And in order to give greater effect to the 

 powers of the trustees, and to prevent all negli- 

 gence or misapplication of the funds in those 

 who shall be employed in the execution of the 

 work, there are several important clauses intro- 

 duced, which the reader will find, page i6th of 

 the act, and to which he is referred. 



From this short abstract, the principle and ob- 

 ject of the act will be easily understood ; and 

 whoever peruses the act itself at large, with the 

 least attention, will acknowledge that it hath 

 been framed with much judgment, and that the 

 several provisions it contains are well calculated 

 to answer the design in view. In fixing the 

 conversion of road-services, due regard has been 

 evidently paid to the interests of all whom the 

 law .more directly and immediately affects. And 

 it ought to be observed and mentioned, that, in 

 the conversion of the services of householders, 

 cottagers, labourers, &c. where the trustees have 

 evidently the greatest discretionary powers, these 

 powers have, in the first instance, been exercised 

 with equal tenderness and wisdom, in the mode- 

 rate rate at which they have fixed the conver- 

 sion. And it is not to be doubted, that, in the 

 future exercise of these powers, they will act 

 with the same consideration, and make the bur- 

 den feel as light as possible to the lower and less 



