Such have been the proofs hitherto required to be given; and I do not find that the Lords have made any standing order that they will dispense with those proofs. The act just alluded to, merely empowers certain justices of the peace to administer particular affidavits. It does not enact that those affidavits shall be evidence before either House of Parliament: And therefore until the House of Lords make some further order on the subject, I apprehend they will require the same proofs as they did before the passing of that a&t.

What has been said of proceedings in this House, in the Introductory Chapter (to which the reader will please to refer) renders any further remarks in this Chapter unnecessary.

Cases decided respecting Inclosures, and Public Acts of Parliament relating thereto.

The several public acts of Parliament now in force, enabling parties, owners and occupiers of wastes, woods, and pastures, and commons, and common-fields, to inclose by agreement between themselves for a limited period, are 29 GEO. 11. c. 36 (explained and amended by 31 GEO. II. c. 41) 13 GEO. III. c. 81.

See the cases of Duberley v. Page, 2 T.R. 391, 2; Rewell v. Joddrell, ibid. 415; Townley

v. Gib

v. Gibson, ibid. 701; Glover v. Lane, 3 T. R. 445; Clarkson v. Woodhouse, 5 T. R. 412; Rex v. Inhabitants of Cottingham, 6T. R. 20; Shakespear v. Peppin, ibid. 741; Com. Dig. 3 v. P. 28.

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CHAP. II.

TURNPIKE-ROAD BILLS.

BILLS for making a turnpike-road, or for the renewal or alteration of any act of Parliament passed for that purpose, should originate in the House of Commons; and before an application be made to Parliament for any of the above purposes, notices should be given at the time and in the manner required by the following standing orders:

NOTICES.

"On the 25th April 1774-Resolved, That before any petition is presented to this House for making a turnpike-road, or for the renewal or alteration of any act of Parliament passed for that purpose, notice of such intended application to Parliament be given at the general quarter-sessions of the peace, which shall be held for every and each county or district through which such road passes, or is intended to pass, at the Michaelmas

immediately preceding the session of Parlia ment in which such petition is to be pre

sented."

"On the 25th April 1774-Resolved, That this notice be given by affixing to the door of the sessions-house where such general quarter-sessions are held, a printed or written paper, describing the parishes through which the said road passes, or is intended to pass; and that such notice be also printed in some one newspaper of the county; or, if there is no such paper printed for that county, then in the newspaper of some near or adjoining county, three times at least, in the months of August and September, or either of them, immediately preceding the session of Parliament in which such petition is to be presented.

"This and the former resolution declared to be standing orders."

A general form for the notices, and other precedents for Chap. II. are inserted in the Appendix (B).

PETITION.

When the notices required by the foregoing orders have been given, a petition signed by some of the principal owners and occupiers of estates, through or near which the road is intended to be made, in case the application to Parliament be to

make

make a new turnpike-road, or if to renew a former act or acts, then by some of the commissioners appointed under or by virtue of such act or acts, should be presented to the House, for leave to bring in the bill: And to a petition to make a new road, or to raise a further sum for that purpose, an estimate of the proposed expence of such undertaking, signed by the person or persons making the same, together with an account of the money subscribed for carrying the said work into execution, and the names of the subscribers, with the sums respectively subscribed by them, must also be annexed, agreeable to the following order: "On the 25th April 1774-Resolved, That when any petition is presented to this House for making a new turnpike-road, or for raising a further sum for that purpose, there be annexed to the said petition, an estimate of the proposed expence of such undertaking, signed by the person or persons making the same, together with an account of the money subscribed for carrying the said work into execution, and the names of the subscribers, with the sums respectively subscribed by them. This is made a standing order."

"On the 15th November 1775-Resolved,

That when any petition for a turnpike-road, or for renewing or altering any act of Parliament passed for that purpose, hath been presented