Road Repair (Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire) Act 1663

II. Surveyors to require Persons chargeable to come with Wains, Carts, &c.

Surveyors to pay Labourers and Owners of Wains, Carts, &c.; Such Persons neglecting, &c.; Penalty on Owners.; Penalty on Labourers.

And for the better effecting thereof Bee it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Surveyors, or any three or more of them, in their severall Countyes, shall from time to time, as they shall see cause, appoint and require, all and every person and persons, inhabiting within three miles of the places aforesaid, being within their severall and respective Countyes, who by any Law or Statute of this Realme now in force, is, or are chargeable, to finde any Wayne, or Cart, for the amending of the Highwayes and every other person and persons chargeable, to labour in the Highwayes, upon reasonable notice, to send his or their Cart or Wayne and Teame, or to come to labour in the said Highway at any the places aforesaid, within their respective Countyes, so furnished, as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme is directed, for the amending of other Highwayes when and soe often, as the said Surveyors for their said severall Countyes, or any three or more of them, shall thinke needfull and appoint, for which the said Surveyors, shall pay unto such Labourers, and to the Owners of such Teames Carts and Waynes, according to the usuall rate of the Countrey And in case any person soe charged, to send his or their Teame to worke as aforesaid; shall refuse or neglect soe to doe, such person so refusing or neglecting, shall forfeit Ten shillings for every day, that hee or they shall make such default, and every Labourer Eighteen pence, for every day, hee shall neglect or refuse to worke as aforesaid