Section V Where Roads not of the Breadth of Eight Yards Surveyors to lay out Lands adjoining.

Writ of ad quod damnum first being issued; and Surveyors giving Satisfaction to Owners of the Land.; Such new Ways to be repaired, &c. as the former Ways.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Surveyors of the High wayes for the time being of every such Parish Town Village or Hamlet within theire several Precincts from time to time by order from the Quarter Sessions and upon the view and by the allowance or consent of twoe or more Justices of the Peace of the County authorized thereunto by the Sessions wherein such Parish Town Village or Hamlet shall lie under theire Hands and Seales in writing where any co[m]mon or publique High way is not of the breadth of eight yards from the shoares and brincks of the Ditches on either side or from the bancks and hedges where there are no Ditches to assign and lay out so much of any mans several Lands next adjoyning to the said Co[m]mon and Publick High way where they shall thinke it needfull and it may conveniently be done as shall enlarge the said way to be the full breadth of eight yards or so much broader (toward the breadth of eight yards) then now it is as conveniently the place will beare from the said Shoares Ditches Banks or Hedges by the consent of the Owner or Owners of the said Lands according to his or theire respective Interests therein or otherwise by Order of the Justices of Peace at theire Quarter Sessions after a Writt of Ad quod damnum first issued out and returned to assign and lay out a new and more comodious way in and over the said Lands next or neare adjoyning to the said common and publick High wayes the said Surveyors first giveing X1such satisfaction for the said ground unto the respective Owners of the same according to theire severall and respective Interest in the whole not exceeding twenty yeares purchase Provided alwaies That if any Common or publick High way or wayes shall be so altered and changed as is aforesaid that then and in such case the same new Way or Wayes as alsoe any new Way or Wayes altered or to be altered by a Writ of Ad quod damnum shall from time to time be repaired and amended by such Parish or Parishes Town Hamlet or Village or by such Person and Persons and in such manner and forme as the said old and former common or publick High way or wayes was or were to be repaired and amended