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The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. (1839)

London : J.W. Parker · leaf 80

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t notable circumstances in the historyof English roads, is the establishment of a toll, to bepaid by the passers along the road, in order to defray a TURNPIKE IIOADS. 67 portion or the -whole of the expense incurred in keepingthe road in repair. This plan was first adopted, webelieve, in the year… … The act ordained, that the justices of the peace wereto appoint persons to take sumes of money in the nameof Toll or Custome, to bee paid for all such horses, carts,coaches, waggons, droves, and gangs of cattell as shallpasse that wave/ The tolls were, for a horse one penny,a coach six-pence, a…

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