in the list of creditors or mortgagees of such trust in respect thereof; and the said Commissioners are hereby empowered, by summons under their hands, to require the attendance of all clerks, surveyors, treasurers, and other officers of any of the said trusts, as well as of all other persons whom they may think fit to call before them upon any question or matter connected with or relating to the subject of the said inquiry, and also to examine all such persons, and to require the production of all books, contracts, agreements, accounts, maps, plans, Acts of Parliament, papers, and documents, or copies thereof, in anywise relating thereto; and the said Commissioners may, if they shall think fit, require any person whom they shall examine with respect to any of the matters aforesaid to make or subscribe a declaration of the truth of the matters respecting which such person shall have been or shall be examined: Provided always, that no such person shall be obliged by any such summons to go or travel more than twenty miles from the place of his usual abode.

VII. That if any person being examined by the said Commissioners, or the arbitrators or umpire after mentioned, under the authority of this Act, shall wilfully and corruptly give false evidence, or shall subscribe a false declaration, or if any person shall wilfully refuse to attend in obedience to the summons of the said Commissioners, or shall wilfully refuse to give evidence, or to make and subscribe such declaration as aforesaid, or shall wilfully alter, suppress, conceal, destroy, or refuse to produce any books, contracts, agreements, accounts, writings, plans, maps, Acts of Parliament, papers, or documents, which may be required to be produced before the said Commissioners, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.

VIII. That the said Commissioners acting as aforesaid under the authority of this Act, and the arbitrators and umpire after mentioned, shall make or cause to be made a full and particular record in writing of their proceedings, and of all such matters and things in the course of the several examinations and inquiries herein before directed to be made by them, as they shall deem essential.

IX. That so soon as the said examination and inquiry into the affairs and finances of any of the said trusts respectively shall have been made as aforesaid, and all such evidence as the said Commissioners shall deem necessary shall have been heard and received touching the same, the said Commissioners shall forthwith proceed to determine respecting the claims of the several persons being or claiming to be mortgagees or creditors of such trust, and shall estimate and determine the fair and actual value of every 1001. of debt secured by mortgage or assignment of or other charges on the tolls of such trust, and also the value, if any, of every 1001. of interest remaining due upon any such mortgage debts, excluding nevertheless all such interest as shall have been due and in arrear for more than six years previous to the 1st of August in this present year, which said lastmentioned interest the said Commissioners shall in all cases deduct and disallow; and as to any turnpike trusts wherein are comprised any roads or portions of roads locally situated in two or more counties, the said Commissioners shall decide in what manner and according to what proportions the debts outstanding upon such trusts shall be apportioned and made chargeable upon each of such counties respectively, and the said Commissioners shall thereupon make their award in writing under their hands and seals, and shall specify therein the names of all such persons as they shall have determined to be entitled to any monies, in respect of principal or interest, as mortgagees or creditors of such trust, together with the sums to which in the judgment of the said Commissioners the said persons shall be respectively entitled, according to the value of their respective debts; and the said Commissioners shall forthwith deliver their said award to the clerk of such trust, and the said clerk shall, within three days from the delivery of such award, give or send notice in writing to the several persons therein specified as creditors of such trust, or to the lawful representatives or agents of such persons, of the sums thereby awarded to them respectively, according to the tenor and effect of the said award; provided that all notices directed by this Act to be served or given, except such as are to be given by advertisement in any newspaper, may be sent by post.

x. That where any monies shall be due to any infant, the award may be made for the payment of the sum therein specified to the parent or guardian of such infant, or if there shall be no parent or guardian, then to any trustee or trustees for such infant; and if any monies shall be due to a lunatic or idiot, then the award may be made for such payment to the committee of such lunatic or idiot; and where any monies shall be due to any person in trust for others, the award may be made for such payment to the trustee or trustees; or in case of the refusal to act or incapacity of such trustee or trustees, then the said Commissioners, by their said award, or by any writing under their hands and seal, may appoint another or other trustees for the purpose of receiving such payment.

XI. That in case any person so adjudged to be entitled to any monies as a mortgagee or creditor of any such turnpike trust (or the executor, administrator, parent, guardian, trustee, or committee of any such person, in case the person so adjudged to be entitled shall have died, or shall be a minor, cestuique trust, lunatic, or idiot,) shall be dissatisfied with the amount determined by the award of the said Commissioners to be payable in respect of the debt due to such person, then such person, or such executor, administrator, guardian, trustee, or committee, shall, within twenty-one days from the receipt of the said notice of award, signify his dissent from such award by notice in writing to be served upon the clerk of the said trust; and the said clerk shall, within three days after the expiration of the said twenty-one days, transmit a list of the names of all such dissentients to the said Commissioners or to their secretary; and all such creditors or persons authorized to act on their behalf who shall fail to give notice of dissent within the time hereby limited shall not afterwards be at liberty, except only in the case hereinafter described, to question or object to such award; and the said award shall be binding and conclusive upon all such creditors and persons to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

XII. That in case any creditor mentioned in such award, or person authorized to act on behalf of such creditor, shall have duly given notice of such dissent as aforesaid, and the same shall have been duly certified by the clerk of such trust to the said Commissioners, the said Commissioners shall thereupon appoint some convenient time and place, whereof they shall cause not less than fourteen days notice to be given by advertisement in one or more newspapers circulating in any county wherein such trust shall be situate, for determining the claims of all dissentient parties by arbitration, according to the provisions hereinafter contained.

XIII. That the said dissentients shall attend before the said Commissioners in person, or by their agents, at the time and place which shall have been so appointed as aforesaid, and the majority in number of such dissentients, if more than two, and if two or one, then such two or one, shall elect and appoint some one fit and competent person, not being in anywise interested in the subject matter of such award, to be an arbitrator on their or his behalf, and shall signify the appointment of such arbitrator to the Commissioners; and the Commissioners, if they shall approve of such appointment, shall thereupon nominate one other indifferent person to be an arbitrator on their part; provided always, that the said dissentients shall have no power to revoke the appointment of the arbitrator by them appointed after the same shall have been signified to and approved by the Commissioners; and in case the said dissentients shall refuse or neglect to appoint such arbitrator, then it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to appoint one arbitrator to act on behalf of both parties, and in such case the award or determination of such one arbitrator shall be final and conclusive, in the same manner as if two arbitrators had been appointed and had concurred in the same.

XIV. That if before the matters referred to such arbitrators shall have been determined any arbitrator appointed by either party shall die, or become incapable or refuse or neglect to act as arbitrator, the party by whom such arbitrator was appointed may appoint in manner aforesaid some other indifferent person to act in his stead.

xv. That in case the said arbitrators so to be appointed as aforesaid shall be unable to agree upon and determine the matters referred to them, they shall jointly nominate and appoint some third person, to be approved by the said Commissioners, to act as umpire, or if the said arbitrators cannot agree in such appointment, then an umpire shall be named by one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State; and the decision of such umpire on the matters so referred to shall be final.

XVI. That the said arbitrators, or their umpire, shall inquire and determine what sums of money shall be paid to the said dissentients in respect of their debts, and shall have the same powers and authorities for the purpose of the said arbitration as are hereinbefore given to the said Commissioners touching the examining of witnesses, as well the persons on whose behalf any such arbitration shall have been instituted as others, and touching the production of any books, papers, contracts, writings, or documents which they or he shall deem necessary for the purpose of such arbitration.

XVII. That the said arbitrators, or their umpire, shall make their or his award in writing touching all the several matters referred, under their hands and seals or hand and seal, and shall forthwith deliver one copy or duplicate thereof to the said Commissioners, and another copy or duplicate thereof to the clerk of such trust; and such clerk shall forthwith give notice to the said persons on whose behalf such arbitration shall have been instituted of the tenor and effect of such award; and such award shall be final, conclusive, and binding on the said persons, and on all other persons whomsoever, and shall have the same force and effect as any award made by the said Commissioners in pursuance of this Act.

XVIII. That the said Commissioners shall allow to any person acting as arbitrator or umpire, according to the provisions of this Act, such sums for his services and loss of time therein as the said Commissioners shall deem reasonable; and the said sums, and all other expenses incurred in and about such arbitration, shall be borne and paid as follows; (that is to say,) if the sum awarded by such arbitrators or umpire to be paid to the parties dissenting from the award of the said Commissioners shall be a greater sum than the sum specified in the said last-mentioned award, then all the said costs, charges, and expenses attending the proceedings before the said arbitrators or umpire shall be paid in like manner as other charges and expenses which shall be incurred by the said Commissioners, or by their authority, in carrying this Act into execution; and in case the sum or sums awarded by such arbitrators or umpire shall not be a greater sum or sums than the sum or sums specified in the award of the said Commissioners, then such costs, charges, and expenses as aforesaid shall be borne and paid rateably by the several parties on whose behalf the said arbitration shall have been instituted: Provided always, that all costs, charges, and expenses to be borne by such parties, may, in default of their paying the same, be paid in like manner as other charges and expenses incurred in the execution of this Act as aforesaid; and in that case the same shall be fairly and rateably appor tioned by the said Commissioners among the said parties respectively, and the same shall be deducted from the payments thereafter to be made to such parties in respect of the several sums awarded to them, according to the provisions hereinafter contained.

XIX. That no award or other instrument relating to or arising out of any arbitration which shall take place in pursuance of this Act, and no advertisement which, in pursuance of this Act, and by direction of the said Commissioners, shall be inserted in the London Gazette or in any newspaper, shall be chargeable with any stamp duty.

xx. That in case any person claiming to be a mortgagee or creditor of any turnpike trust shall, by reason of absence from the realm, or any other unavoidable and necessary cause, fail to give notice to the Commissioners of such mortgage or debt within the time and according to the regulations hereinbefore limited and provided, or in case any person who shall have been proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioners to be a mortgagee or creditor of any turnpike trust, and with respect to whose mortgage or debt any award shall have been made by the Commissioners shall, by reason of such unavoidable and necessary cause as aforesaid, fail to give notice of dissent from such award within the time and according to the regulations hereinbefore limited and provided, it shall nevertheless be lawful for the said Commissioners, upon the application of such person at aay time within twelve months from the passing of this Act, provided they shall be satisfied with the cause alleged, to receive evidence of such mortgage or debt, and to make their award respecting the same as hereinbefore directed, or otherwise to direct an arbitration to be instituted, as the case may be, according to the regulations hereinbefore contained, at such time and place, and on such terms and conditions, with reference to the circumstances of the case, as to the said Commissioners shall appear just and reasonable: Provided always, that all parties omitting to give such notice or to make such application within twelve months from the passing of this Act shall be thereafter finally barred and concluded from any further application, appeal, or other proceeding with respect to any such debt or mortgage, or with respect to any award of the Commissioners concerning the same.

XXI. That the said Commissioners, so soon as they shall have made the said examination and inquiry hereinbefore directed to be made into the condition, circumstances, and affairs of the several turnpike trusts in all or any of the said six counties,

and so soon as they shall have estimated and ascertained the sums payable to the several creditors of the said trusts respectively, and shall have made or caused to be made the several awards concerning the same, shall make a full and particular report, under their hands and seal, to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and shall therein specify in detail the sums by them or by their authority awarded to be due and payable to the several creditors of each of the said trusts respectively, and also the total or aggregate sums which they shall have determined to be chargeable in respect of such debts to or upon each of the said counties repectively, and shall also make such further report or returns respecting any other matters and things thereto appertaining as the said Commissioners shall deem necessary, or as one of Her Majesty's said Principal Secretaries of State shall require; and the said Commissioners shall also make such other and additional reports from time to time respecting any matters and things by them done in the execution of this Act, or relating to the same, as Her Majesty's said Principal Secretary of State shall require.

XXII. That when the said Commissioners shall have made their report of the sums awarded to be paid to the said creditors in respect of their said debts and interest, and such report shall have been approved of by one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, then it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for carrying into execution an Act, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 9, intituled An Act to authorize the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund to a limited Amount for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor; and to amend the Acts authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills for the like Purposes,' (and which said Commissioners are hereinafter designated as the Public Works Loan Commissioners,) in manner after mentioned, to cause to be paid the several sums of money so fixed by such awards respectively to the parties entitled to receive the same under the said awards, together with interest thereon after the rate of 31. per cent. per annum from the date of the said awards respectively to the day which shall be appointed by the said Public Works Loan Commissioners for the payment thereof; and the payment to the persons named in such awards respectively, their executors, administrators, or assigns, or to the parent or guardian of any infant, or to the committee of any lunatic or idiot, shall be a valid and effectual payment and discharge of and in respect of such monies so awarded, and of all claims of such persons in respect of the same. XXIII. That for the purpose of providing a fund for such payments the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being are hereby empowered, by warrant under the hands of any three or more of them, to direct to be charged upon and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or out of the growing produce thereof from time to time, to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, a sum or sums of money not exceeding 225,000l. to be by them held in trust for the purposes hereafter mentioned.

XXIV. That the Commissioners for the time being for the Reduction of the National Debt shall be and they are hereby appointed trustees on the part of the public for holding the said monies to be issued and paid out of the Consolidated Fund as aforesaid, and they shall cause a separate account to be opened at the Bank of England with them for such purpose, under the title of "The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt on account of the South Wales Turnpike Trust Fund," which account the Governor and Company of the Bank of England shall and they are hereby required to open in their books accordingly, and to which account shall be carried all such monies as shall be issued and paid out of the Consolidated Fund for the purposes aforesaid; and there shall be provided and kept in the office of the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt a book or books, in which all the monies transferred to the account of the said last-mentioned Commissioners by virtue of this Act shall be entered and kept separate and apart from all other monies; and such monies shall be by them held subject to the disposal and orders of the said Public Works Loan Commissioners for the purposes of payments to be made by them in pursuance of this Act.

XXV. That the Governor and Company of the Bank of England shall and they are hereby required to open an account in their books with the Public Works Loan Commissioners, under the title of "The Commissioners for the Issue of Loans for Public Works and Fisheries, et cetera, (South Wales Turnpike Trusts,)" and to the credit of which account shall be carried all principal monies and interest which shall from time to time become payable in respect of the monies hereinafter directed to be secured to such last-mentioned Commissioners, and shall be paid to the cashiers of the said Bank of England, upon such or the like certificates, under the hands of the said last-mentioned Commissioners, as by the said recited Act is provided or referred to in the case of payments to be made into the Bank as therein is provided, or as near thereto as the difference of circumstances will admit.

XXVI. That all and every sum and sums of money which shall be paid into the Bank of England to the account of the lastmentioned Commissioners, under or by virtue of this Act, shall from time to time, immediately on such payments being made to the said account, be transferred by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to the account kept by the said Bank of England with Her Majesty's Exchequer, and when so transferred shall be carried to and be made part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

XXVII. That when and so soon as the said last-mentioned Commissioners shall have determined upon any amount of money to be paid under the provisions of this Act, the said Commissioners or any three or more of them shall forthwith certify such amount to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt for the time being; and at the foot of every such certificate the Secretary of the said Public Works Loan Commissioners shall state the name or names of the person or persons by whom every such certificate is to presented to the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt; and upon every such certificate being produced to the officer of the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, the comptroller general or assistant comptroller, or chief clerk acting under the said last-named Commissioners, shall upon the back of every such certificate indorse and sign an order for the payment of the sum mentioned in every such certificate to the person or persons named at the foot of every such certificate, or to one of such persons, and which order of such officer previously to the issuing thereof shall be entered by the clerk or other proper officer, and shall be countersigned by the actuary or other check officer acting under the said last-named Commissioners, and shall be addressed to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England; and such cashiers or one of them shall upon the production of every such order pay the sum mentioned therein to the person or persons mentioned in every such order; and the signature of such person or persons, jointly or severally,

shall be a sufficient discharge to the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and to the said governor and company respectively; provided the total amount directed to be paid by such certificate or certificates respectively shall not at any time exceed the amount for the time being standing to the credit of the said account of the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt under the provisions of this Act.

XXVIII. That the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt shall cause to be made up, for examination and audit, an annual account to the 31st of December in each year of the receipts, payments, and balances on the said account so directed to be kept by them in respect of the said "South Wales Turnpike Trust Fund" as aforesaid, and shall deliver the same to the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts.

XXIX. That an account shall be made up on the 25th of March and the 29th of September in every year of the monies which shall have been paid by the said Public Works Loan Commissioners as aforesaid, together with interest thereon from the respective days of payment up to the said 25th of March or the 29th of September, as the case may be, distinguishing the same so as to shew the amount paid to creditors on tolls within each of the aforesaid counties respectively, together with such interest as aforesaid; and thereupon the said Commissioners for carrying this Act into execution, in consideration of the sums so respectively paid to the creditors on the tolls of each of the said counties respectively, together with such interest as aforesaid, shall charge the county roads fund hereinafter mentioned, and the rates to be levied in aid thereof as after mentioned, with the payment to the said Public Works Loan Commissioners, on account of the South Wales Turnpike Trust Fund, of such an annuity as shall be equal to 51. 5s. for every sum of 100. so paid as aforesaid by the last-named Commissioners, together with such interest as aforesaid in respect of each separate county, and so in proportion for any fractional part of 1001. paid, such annuity to be payable from the said 25th of March or the 29th of September up to which such account shal have been made, for the term of thirty years, and to be paid half-yearly, and without deduction, on the 25th of March and the 29th of September in every year, and the first payment to be made on such of the said half-yearly days of payment as shall next happen after such charge shall have been made, and so as the county roads fund aforesaid, and such rates in aid thereof as aforesaid of each county be charged with such an annuity as aforesaid in respect of the sums paid to the creditors on the tolls within that county, and such interest thereon as aforesaid, and no more.

xxx. That with respect to any monies to be paid by the Public Works Loan Commissioners after the powers hereby given to the Commissioners for carrying this Act into execution shall have ceased, then such charge as aforesaid shall be made and executed by one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.

XXXI. That all such charges to be made as aforesaid shall be made and prepared in such form as the said Public Works Loan Commissioners shall from time to time order or direct, and, when executed by the parties hereby authorized to make such charges, shall be valid in the law, and shall be made to the secretary for the time being of the said Commissioners last mentioned, and in all respects as by the said recited Act, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 9, and the Acts therein recited, is directed and provided with regard to securities and charges to be made to the secretary for the time being of the Commissioners last mentioned; and all provisions and directions in the said recited Act and the Acts therein recited shall apply to such charges or securities to be made in pursuance of this Act in such manner as if the same were herein repeated; and the fact of the secretary of the said Commissioners being a party to such charge shall be deemed conclusive evidence of the same having been prepared in the form prescribed by and under the order and direction of the said last-mentioned Commissioners.

XXXII. Provided and enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall authorize the Commissioners for carrying this Act into execution to award to the Commissioners for carrying into execution the said recited Act, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 9, or to any of the Commissioners for carrying into execution any of the several Acts therein recited, in respect of any mortgage or other charge on the tolls of any turnpike trust in South Wales heretofore made to any such Commissioners respectively, or their secretary, and to which no other fund or payment is now by any law or statute made applicable, any sum less than the full amount which shall be due thereon for principal and interest up to the day of the date of such award as aforesaid; but all such principal monies and interest which shall be so due shall be awarded in full to the said Public Works Loan Commissioners, or their secretary for the time being, in lieu of such debts and interest being valued in manner hereinbefore specified with respect to such other debts or charges and interest so as aforesaid directed to be valued, and shall be paid accordingly.

XXXIII. That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury for the time being, by warrant under the hands of any three or more of them, from time to time to direct the payment of any part of the monies by the said recited Act, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 9, authorized to be paid to the Commissioners for the time being for the Reduction of the National Debt (as in the said Act is provided) to be paid into the Bank of England to the account kept by the said Bank of England with her Majesty's Exchequer, and when so paid the same shall be carried to and made part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, so as such sums so to be paid shall not exceed the amount of the sums from time to time to be advanced for the purposes of this Act.

XXXIV. That all local Acts of Parliament for making, repairing, or regulating any turnpike road or roads within any of the said counties respectively shall, so far as relates to the several turnpike roads locally situated within the said counties respectively, be repealed by virtue of this Act; and the repeal of every such local Act respectively shall date and take effect from and after such day as the said Commissioners, by order under their hands and seal, and whereof notice shall twice be published in the London Gazette, shall appoint and declare with respect to such local Act or Acts as shall be specifie! in such order respectively; and the provisions of this Act hereinafter contained for consolidating the several trusts in each of the said counties, and for altering and remodelling the management of the same, shall thenceforward come into full operation and effect: Provided always, that the repeal of the said Acts shall not have the effect of reviving any former Acts which have been repealed by those Acts or any of them, but such former Acts shall continue repealed in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed.

XXXV. That the said Commissioners shall, so soon as the said inquiry herein before directed to be made into the debts and circumstances of the several turnpike trusts shall have been completed, cause a notice in writing to be addressed to

the clerk of the peace of each of the said counties respectively, and her Majesty's Justices of the Peace acting in and for each of the said counties respectively shall, at their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held for such county next after the date of such notice, or if the regular time for holding such General Quarter Sessions shall not happen within thirty days from such date, then at some General Sessions to be duly summoned for that purpose, according to the regulations now in force for the summoning of the same, and to be held within thirty days from the date of such notice, elect and appoint not less than six nor more than twelve fit and competent persons, being Justices of the Peace acting in and for the said county, to be members of the board to be constituted in pursuance of this Act for the management and controul of all tumpike roads lying within each of the said counties respectively; and in case the said Justices shall, at their said General or Quarter Sessions which shall be held next after the said notice, or in pursuance thereof, elect a less number than twelve persons to be members of the said board, then it shall be lawful for the said Justices from time to time, at any subsequent General Quarter Sessions, to elect so many other persons, being Justices as aforesaid, as, together with the said persons before elected, shall not exceed the said number of twelve; and whenever any of the persons who shall have been so elected respectively shall die or resign, or if any of the said persons shall absent themselves from the meetings of the said boards for the space of twelve months, the said Justices of the Peace shall, at their General Quarter Sessions held next after such vacancy shall have occurred, elect and appoint another or other person or persons in the room of the person or persons who shall have died or resigned as aforesaid: Provided always, that notice of any election to take place in pursuance of this Act shall in all cases be given by the clerk of the peace for such county, by inserting an advertisement thereof in one or more of the newspapers circulating in such county fourteen days at least before the said General Quarter Sessions at which such election is intended to take place.

XXXVI. That in each of the said counties respectively the several persons herein next mentioned shall be ex officio members of the said board; that is to say, the Lord Lieutenant and the Vice Lieutenant (if any) of such county for the time being, all eldest sons of peers, and all members of her Majesty's Privy Council, who shall respectively reside in such county, or be rated in respect of any property therein, and all members of the House of Commons who shall have been elected to serve in Parliament for such county, or for any borough or place therein, and the chairman of Quarter Sessions for such county for the time being.

XXXVII. That the said board to be constituted by virtue of this Act in each of the said counties respectively shall be styled "The County Roads Board," and shall subject to the provisions and restrictions hereinafter contained, have the superintendence, controul, and management of all turnpike roads, and parts of turnpike roads, situated in any of the said counties respectively, which shall have been heretofore regulated by any local Act or Acts of Parliament to be repealed in pursuance of this Act, and which shall be determined by the said Commissioners in manner hereinafter provided to be maintainable as turnpike roads in any of the said counties respectively.

XXXVIII. That the several powers, provisions, and regulations of the Acts mentioned in the first Schedule to this Act annexed (and which are hereinafter called the general Turnpike Acts) shall, except so far as the same are varied, altered, or repealed by this Act, continue to apply to all roads which shall hereafter be maintained, pursuant to the said determination of the said Commissioners, as turnpike roads within any of the said counties respectively; and all powers, privileges, rights, exemptions, penalties, restrictions, and liabilities belonging or appertaining, by virtue of the said general Turnpike Acts or any of them, to any trustees or Commissioners acting in execution of any local Act for regulating any turnpike roads, shall, except so far as the same are varied, altered, or repealed by this Act, or are repugnant or contradictory thereto, apply to all persons who shall be members of any of the said county roads, boards, and also, so far as the same shall be found applicable, to all members of any district boards to be constituted by virtue of this Act in manner hereinafter provided.

XXXIX. That in each of the said counties respectively the present collectors of tolls, surveyors, clerks, and all other officers and persons who shall have received any tolls or other money under or by virtue of any local Act for regulating turnpike roads to be repealed in pursuance of this Act, shall, so soon as they shall be required by the county roads board acting in and for the county to which the road or roads included in such local Act shall respectively be determined to belong, account for, pay, and deliver over such tolls or other money to the said county roads board, or to some person to be by the said county roads board appointed for that purpose, in the same manner as they are by the said general Turnpike Acts required to do to the trustees by or under whom they have been appointed, and shall be subject to the like provisions and penalties for enforcing the production of such account, and such payment and delivery over, as they would have been subject to under the said general Turnpike Acts if they had refused or neglected to produce, pay, or deliver over the same as thereby required to the said trustees: Provided always, that in case any road or roads included in any turnpike trust shall lie in more than one of the said counties, the officers acting under the local Act regulating the same shall pay and deliver over the monies in their hands, and other property of or belonging to such trust as aforesaid, in such proportion between two or more such county roads boards as the said Commissioners shall order and direct.

And after reciting that many persons may at the time of the repeal of the said local Acts be farmers of the tolls arising on turnpike roads, and may hold leases or contracts with the trustees acting in execution of such Acts, which leases or contracts may be unexpired at the time of such repeal: And that the rates of such tolls, and the distances within which the same shall be payable, may be altered by virtue of this Act, and the roads to which such contracts relate may be situated in different counties, and may be placed by virtue of this Act under different management and controul:

It is Enacted,

XL. That it shall be lawful for the county roads board acting in and for the county wherein the roads to which such leases or contracts relate shall lie, upon application made to such board by such farmer of tolls, lessee, or contractor, to release and discharge such farmer, lessee, or contractor from such lease or contract, and the same shall thenceforth become void and of no effect as to the residue of the term or time then to come and unexpired therein, anything contained in such lease or contract, to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said county roads board to make such composition and agreement with the parties interested therein for apportionment of rents or payments, and also to 2 I

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