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contradiction was sometimes published on these 

 boards. At every turnpike there used to be affixed a 

 large board painted very much after this fashion : 



' SLOCUM TRUST. 



'For every horse, mule, donkey,' etc., and after 

 setting forth almost every description of animal likely 

 to pass through a turnpike-gate, and the amount of 

 toll to be paid in respect of each, and also a similar 

 description of every kind of vehicle, and the tolls in 

 respect of it, concluding with the short but expressive 

 notice — 



' NO TRUST.' 



Although the turnpike trustees gave no trust, it 

 will be manifest from the large amount of debts 

 many of them were encumbered with that they did 

 not fail to avail themselves of such opportunities as 

 they possessed of obtaining trust, as many of their 

 creditors to their sorrow eventually discovered. So 

 long, however, as tolls were to be received, creditors 

 had the power, if not paid their interest, of seizing 

 the tolls and keeping them till their debts were paid, 

 and this in priority to the appropriation of the tolls 

 for the maintenance of the roads. 



With the disappearance of the turnpike-gates the 

 little document of ancient origin yclept a ' turnpike 

 ticket ' has also become unnecessary ; the diminutive 



