London to Harwich Roads Act 1695

III. Surveyors, where necessary, may dig Gravel, &c. in Wastes, &c. of neighbouring Places;

and in the Grounds of Persons (Exception); Satisfaction to Owner of Ground; and to fill up Pits made where necessary.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where there is not sufficient Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones within any Parish Towne Village or Hamlett wherein the said ruinous Places doe severally lye to repaire the same itt shall and may be lawfull for the said Surveyors in their several and respective Places and such Person or Persons as they shall appoint to digg take and carry away Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones out of the Waste or Co[m]mon of any neigbouring Parish Towne Village or Hamlett without paying any thing for the same [X1 for amending the same] or where there is not sufficient of such Materials in any Co[m]mon or Waste Ground thereunto neare adjoyning to digg in the several Grounds of any Person or Persons (not being an House Garden Orchard Yard Meadow or Park stored with Deer Avenues and Planted Walks) where any such Materials are or may be found and from time to time to carry away such and so much thereof as the Surveyors in their respective Places shall adjudge necessary for the said Reparations without paying any thing for such Materials save onely such reasonable Satisfaction to the Owner or Occupier of the Ground where the same shall be so digged and carriedaway as for the Damage hee or they shall thereby sustaine to be 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 Materials shall be digged and carried away for the Reparations aforesaid shall with all convenient Speed if adjudged by the said Justices of Peace as aforesaid or desired by the Party owning such Ground be filled upp and levelled with Earth or other Materials.

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X1 interlined on the Roll.