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ZDINBUR(;H, Ocr. 28.

RUB[) TRUST.

At a General Meeting of Trustees for the Fife
Roads, hel . en the !I:Rh of Otiober, a question of
some impoi tame came uuder consideration, arising
from the following circumstances:—ln forming the
line of road from Aberdour, to Ilurntitland, the
Trustees of the Kirk tldy di,tri4, is order to carry
off the• water coming from high ground nn one
side of the road, at a particular phi:e, where the
Earl of Morton's property it situated on the other,
found it necessary to make a conduit across the
road, whereby the water was made to run in.(' the
Earl's property ; he being bound, as they conceived,
to carry it on to the proper level at Surly Barn, a
short way distant. •Ehe measure was not agree-
able to the Earl ; who was of opiaion, that, in exe-
cuting it, the Trustees had exceeded their powers ;
and he immediately carded the questiort into the
Court of Session, where it had been for some time
litigated between him and the Distriet Trustees. hi-
therto sitting upon their own responsibility The
question appearing to th-m of a general nature, and
assuming a very serious aspeCt, tram the litigation
in which they found themselves involved, and
which was evidently to be a lengthened and most
expensive one, they thought it advisable to apply
fin the advice and support of a general meting.
Accordingly, a motion was made by Mr Oswald,
of Dunnikier, and seconded by Mr. Fergusson, of
Raith, for a Committee of Trustees from different
parts of the county, to investigate the pro-
ceedings, and to report their opinion to the first
General Meeting. The motion was opposed by
Lord Morton, chiefly upon the ground that the
question was sob ji.dws, and that any report upon it
until a decision was given by the Lords of Session,
would he altogether nugatory, and might occasion
the Auks Ard and unpleasant consequence of plac-
ing the General Meeting in opposition to the Su-
pr-tae Court, whose decision might be very oppo-
site in import to the proceedings of a Committee, nr
of a General Meeting acting upon its Report. His
Lordship also added, that the Report of the Com-
mittee would be defeetive upon another ground,
because it behoved to proceed upon es pup te evi•
deuces for, thinking as he did, he was determined
that the Committee should net hear one word from
him. Upon the part of the DistriEt Trustees, it
was urged by Mr. Fergusson, and Mr. Wemyss,of
Ctittlehill, that the question was of a general na.
tore, entering deeply into the powers of Road
Trustees, not in Fife merely, but over the whole
kingdom -that the °Nen of the proposed Commit-
tee would be to inquire into proceedings which had
taken place, and whether these were such as entitled
the Distri. Trustees to the suppnt of the General
Meeting. That no other evidence WAS proposed to
1: adduced, than what was already matter of record
in the minutes of the DistriEt Meeting, and that the
support of their constitOcota was demanded with the
more confidence, because the law-suit was not a
matter of their sreking, or necessarily the conse-
quence of their proceedings; even supposing them
erroneous, the mode of redress pointed out by the
ad, being by appeal to the Quarter Sessienst a mode
that had beet, disregarded by the Noble Lord, who
had at once entered :he Supreme Court, preferring
a discussion there, to the usual and least expensive
Court. After a debate, the Meeting agreed to ap-
point a Committee in terms of Wenotiva.

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