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Presentment for new lines of road to be levied on the barony, &c.;
or in case of post roads, on the county and barony.
Map of the line to be lodged with secretary along with application.
Services of notices upon occupiers of land, &c.
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55. It shall and may be lawful for the grand jury at any assizes to present any new road to be laid out and made of any width not less than sixteen feet nor more than fifty feet in the clear, and to present all such sum and sums of money as shall be necessary for laying out, or for forming, levelling, and draining, or for gravelling, paving, and making the same, and also for making fences thereto, to be levied on the barony or county of a city or county of a town in which the same shall be situate, and, when it passes through more than one barony, then proportionately on each barony, unless such new line of road shall be one upon which it is intended that his Majesty’s mails shall be carried in mail carriages, in which case it shall and may be lawful for the grand jury to present one half of all such sums of money as shall be necessary for any of the purposes aforesaid to be levied off the county, and the other half off any barony or baronies through which such new road shall pass: Provided always, that no presentment shall be made for laying out any such new road unless together with the application therefor a map of such intended new road has been lodged with the secretary of the grand jury ten days at least before the day for holding the first presentment sessions after each assizes in such county, and that a notice setting forth that an application is intended to be made for a presentment to lay out such new road (distinguishing the several townlands and baronies through which it is intended to be carried, with the number of perches in length through each townland,) has been personally served upon or left at the house of each occupier of the land through which such new road is intended to be made, fifteen days at least before the day of holding such sessions, nor unless it shall appear that no part of such new road is to be made through any deer park inclosed with a wall built of lime and stone or bricks, five feet high or more, without the consent of the owner thereof, and that no part thereof is to be made through any house entirely built with lime and stone or bricks, or through any office belonging to any person inhabiting a house so built, without the consent of such person.
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