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On applications for repair of roads, &c. the sessions may contract for the same.
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20. And in order to lessen the expense of keeping public roads in repair, and to obviate the necessity of making frequent applications to presentment sessions therefor, be it further enacted, that whenever any application shall be made in the manner herein-before provided for gravelling or repairing with small stones any public road, or for keeping open the drains on the side of any public road, or for gravelling or repairing any footpath on the sides of any such road, or for repairing the battlements of any bridges upon any such road, the justices and cess payers associated in the business of such sessions shall consider whether it may not be proper to contract for keeping such road or footpath in repair; and if they shall be of that opinion, they shall fix and determine the period, being not more than seven years, for which it is expedient that a contract should be made for that purpose, and the county surveyor shall insert such period in his specification and form of tender for such works.
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