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Power to present roads, &c. to be repaired by contract for any time not exceeding seven years.
Proviso in case of post roads.
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52. It shall and may be lawful for the grand jury of any county to present any public road within such county, or any part of such public road, or any footpath upon the side of such road, to be gravelled or repaired with broken stone, or the battlements of any bridge upon such road to be kept in sufficient order and repair, by contract, for any space of time not exceeding seven years, and also from time to time to present such sum or sums of money as shall be necessary for the execution of any of the above-mentioned works, and the payment of the person or persons with whom such contract for the execution of the same shall have been made, to be levied or raised off any barony, county of a city, or county of a town in which such road may be locally situate, and, when it passes through more than one barony, then proportionately on each barony: Provided always, that in the case of any road upon which his Majesty’s mails are or shall be carried in mail carriages one half of the expenses of such repairs shall be levied off the county, and the other half off any barony or baronies in which such road or any part thereof may be locally situate.
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