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Section XII No Turnpike to be erected or Toll demanded till Security given that Roads shall be sufficiently repaired within Five Years.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

And to the end the Passengers who pay the Toll by virtue of this Act may be secured to receive benefitt by the said Highway being putt in sufficient Repaire Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Turnpike shall be erected nor Toll demanded by virtue of this Act until sufficient Security shall be given by able and sufficient Persons to the Justices of the Peace or any Five of them att the Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for the County of Gloucester that the said Highway shall within Five Yeares be sufficiently repaired & amended Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any X1wise notwithstanding.

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: ways O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]