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Presentment for widening or repairing public roads, &c.
Proviso in case of post roads.
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50. It shall and may be lawful for any grand jury to present any part of any public road to be widened to any breadth not more than fifty feet in the clear, or to narrow such roads as the surveyor may report to be unnecessarily wide, and to present all such sum or sums of money as shall be necessary for widening and fencing the same, or for gravelling, macadamizing, paving, fencing, repairing, or otherwise improving any part of any public road, or for filling up grips or trenches on the sides of any public road, and making sufficient fences instead thereof, or for filling dikes or holes on the sides of any public road or for making, widening, or deepening drains on the side of any such road, and, carrying off the water therefrom, to be levied off the barony, county of a city, or county of a town where the same shall be situate: Provided always, that when such public road shall be any road upon which his Majesty’s mails are or shall be carried in mail carriages, one half of such sum or sums of money as shall be necessary for any of the purposes aforesaid shall be presented to be levied off the county, and the other half off any barony or baronies in which such road or any part thereof is or shall be situate.
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