TURNPIKE ROAD.

28th April, 1828.

THE Trustees propose to lower the Hill near the Bull and Horseshoes Public-house at Latton, and to raise the lower part of theroad towards Epping, and to contract for the same as follows:

The Contractors will be required to dig out the Gravel on the surface of the Road the whole length of the proposed alteration, and sift the same with Sieves of thirty-five wires in twenty-two inches width, t be used as hereafter specified.

The highest point of the Hill is to be dug out nine feet nine inches; extending five hundred and forty-one feet towards Harlow, and five hundred and sixty-nine feet towards Epping. The Sub-soil to be removed to the lower part of the Road towards Epping, and there spread, (after the Gravel has been removed,) raising the lowest part nine feet six inches, and leaving a new Road of six hundred and seventy-five yards in length, nearly on one level TI Screenings of the Gravel to be spread evenly over the whole surface, and Stones in a thickness of nine inches over the Screenings.

The width of the Road to remain at thirty feet, along the whole length. The sides, where cut down, to be sloped at an Angle of 45 degrees, and, where raised, the Base to be extended in the same proportion.

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the work in the spring, according to his estimate. The disputed carpenter's bill amounting to £29 9s. 9d., which had, at a previous meeting been laid before the Trustees, again came under their notice, January, 1827. When, thinking the amount too high, they offered £25 175. 9d. The carpenter attended, and objected to the proposed reduction. The bill and also a previous bill of £15 3s. 6d. was consequently referred to Mr. Hubert of Lambeth, surveyor, to settle the same on the part of the Trustees and the carpenter. He decided that £44 should be paid to the carpenter by the Trustees for work done at the gate house of the "Baldfaced Stag"; and the expense of the arbitration to be shared. So that in reality he certified the correctness of the carpenter's bill.

J. Jessop, Esq., the clerk, having died, at a special meeting of the Trustees, held the 24th of March, 1828, John Windus was unanimously elected clerk in his stead. And at the same meeting it was moved that the long services of the late lamented John Jessop, Esq., deserve the warmest acknowledgment of the Trust; the motion was carried unanimously.

THE HILL AT LATTON.-The highway from Harlow Bush Common to Woodford, under the management of Trustees, appointed in accordance with the provision of the Act of 1769, had been greatly improved; Golden's Hill, Buckhurst Hill, and Loughton Hill had been lowered; and the entrances, at each end of the town of Epping, had been altered so as to render them suitable for the traffic passing through the town into Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.

There was, however, at Latton a difficult hill, but capable of considerable improvement. At the meeting of the Trustees held April, 1828, the clerk was instructed to mention, when giving notice for the next meeting, that the proposal for altering the road at Latton, near the "Bull and Horseshoe public-house, would be taken into consideration, and to give public notice that the estimate for making the alteration would also be examined.

At the next meeting, the plan suggested for improving the hill having been accepted by the Trustees, and John Thurlow's

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