Highways, etc. Act 1691

1. Introductory Text

2. Reasons for passing this Act.

3. II. Parishioners annually to make a List of sufficient Persons upon 26th of December.

4. III. Laying Timber &c. in the Highway.; Penalty, 5s.

5. IV. Owner of Land adjoining to take away Timber, &c. lying in the Highway.

6. V. Owner not grubbing up Trees, &c.

7. VI. Possessors of Land adjoining Highways to prune the Hedges.

8. VII. Surveyor to present the State of the Highways to a Justice every Four Months.

9. VIII. Petty Sessions held every Four Months to receive Presentments, and take Accounts of Surveyors.

10. IX. Surveyors neglecting Duty; Penalty 40s.

11. X. Justices of Peace neglecting Duty.; Penalty £5.

12. XI. Surveyors may make new Ditches, &c. in Land adjoining.

13. XII. Surveyors laying out Money for Gravel, Stones, &c. to be repaid by an equal Rate to be levied by Distress.

14. XIII. Fines of 5 Eliz. c. 13. to be paid to the Surveyor and not returned into the Exchequer.

15. XIV. All Cartways to be Eight Feet wide.

16. XV. Inhabitants within the Weekly Bills, what Carts they may use.

17. XVI. Justices may in Sessions order an Assessment to be made to repair the Ways.

18. XVII. Assessment not to exceed 6d. in the Pound.

19. XVIII. Persons aggrieved may appeal to Quarter Sessions.

20. XIX. Limitation of Prosecution.

21. XX. Breadth of Horse Cawseys.

22. XXI. Middlesex Justices may make Rates to pave Kensington.

23. XXII. No Certiorari on any Order, &c. upon this Act.

24. XXIII. Justices once a Year to settle the Rates of Carriages, and to certify the same.

25. XXIV. Persons prosecuted for executing this Act may plead the General Issue, and have double Costs.