Roads (Norfolk) Act 1695

III. Surveyors may dig Gravel, &c. out of neighbouring Waste, &c. without paying; and may dig in adjoining Ground, making Satisfact[i]on to Owner; Gardens, &c. excepted.; Damages to be assessed by Quarter Sessions, and Pits to be filled up Waste, &c. without paying; and may dig in adjoining Ground, making Satisfact[i]on to Owner; Gardens, &c. excepted.; Damages to be assessed by Quarter Sessions, and Pits to be filled up.

And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That itt shall and may be lawfull for the said Surveyors and such person and persons as they shall appoint to digg take and carry away Gravell Chalke Sand or Stones out of the Wast or Common of any of the Parishes Townes Villages or Hamletts where any of the said ruinous places shall or doe lye without paying any thing for the same for amending the same or where there is not sufficient of such Materialls in any such Common or Wast Ground, to digg in the severall Grounds of any Person or Persons in the Parishes Townes Villages or Hamletts aforesaid not being an House Garden Orchard Yard Meadow or Parke stored with Deere Avenues and planted Walkes where any such Materialls are or may bee found and from tyme to tyme to carry away such and soe much thereof as the Surveyors shall adjudge necessary for the said Reparations without paying any thing for such Materialls save onely such reasonable Satisfaction to the Owner or Occupyer of the Ground where the same shall bee soe digged and carried away for the Damage hee or they shall thereby sustaine to bee assessed and adjudged by the said Justices att the next or any other Quarter Sessions for the said County in case of difference concerning the same And that the Pitts and Places where and from whence such Materialls shall bee digged and carried away for the Reparations aforesaid shall with all convenient speed to bee adjudged by the said Justices of Peace as aforesaid or desired by the party owning such Ground be filled up and levelled with Earth or other Materialls.