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An Act to repeal a clause in an Act of the seventh year of the reign of His late Majesty (for amending and repairing the highways) which enjoyns waggoners and others to draw with a pole between the wheel-horses, or with double shafts, and to oblige them to draw only with six horses or other beasts, except up hills.
Great Britain.Date: 1708]- Books
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Highways: a treatise, shewing the hardships and inconveniencies of presenting, or indicting parishes, towns, &c. for not repairing the highways. And offering several material additions, and amendments to the laws now in being, for the better, and more effectual Repairing of the same. By John Shapleigh, Esq; Barrister at Law.
Shapleigh, John.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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An enquiry into the means of preserving and improving the publick roads of this kingdom. With observations on the probable consequences of the present plan. By Henry Homer, A.M. Rector of Birdingbury in Warwickshire; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord Leigh.
Homer, Henry Sacheverell, 1719-1791.Date: [1767]- Books
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An act for amending, widening, and keeping in repair, the road from the bottom of Whitesheet Hill, through Hurdcot, to the Wilton turnpike road at or near Barford, in the County of Wilts
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1788]- Books
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An act for widening and repairing the high road leading from Northallerton, to the south wall of the church yard of the town of Thirsk, and from the south east end of the street called Finkell-Street in Thirsk aforesaid, to and through the town of Easingwold in the county o York, to a place called Burton Stone, near the city of York; and also the road from Thirsk aforesaid, to Topcliffe in the north riding of the county of York.
Great Britain.Date: 1753