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taken ty the Commissioners, h would be necessary to liars
officers, such as secretaries and others, who will neces-
sarily have to receive salaries for transacting the business
which comes under their cognizance ?—Certainly officers
must be employed, but the establishment may be kept up
at a very moderate expence, if the same officers we now
have were continued.

What would be the expence ?—The same establishment
we now have would be sufficient. We have a secretary
and an assistant secretary; the first has 2001. a year, anti
the other has 1001. a year. This is the whole of the ex-
pence in London ; Mr. Telford is paid for the time he is
employed.
Are all the charges of the establishment defrayed from
the general income of the road ?—They have been de-
frayed by annual votes of the House.
If Mr. Milne could not continue in the employment as
secretary of the Commissioners, and a new person was to
be employed who would devote the whole of his time to
it, would not an increase be necessary ?—I do not think
any increase would be necessary, for one secretary, I think,
would be able to discharge the whole business; receiving
the two salaries now given to Mr. Milne and his assistant.

FIRST SERIES.
APPENDIX, NO. I.

MEMORIAL FROM THE DUKE OF ATHOLL

AND OTHERS.

Unto the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of his
Majesty's Treasury.
The Memorial of the several Noblemen and Gentlemen
whose names are respectively signed hereto,—

Sheweth,—That the distance between London and Edit:-
burgh by York is 397 miles, to run which the mail takes
fifty-eight hours. The distance between these two places
by West Auckland and Jedburgh is, by the present country ;
road, 370 miles, which it is conceived may be reduced to
360 miles, a distance which may be run in forty-five hours
by accelerating the mail to the rate of the Bristol and
Holyhead coaches, and giving it no road duty to per form
until it passes Boroughbridge. That in part of the execu-
tion of this plan, the heritors of the counties of Mid-
Lothian, Selkirk, and Roxburgh, have at a great expence
completed a new road from Edinburgh towards the borders
of England, pursuing the course of the rivers, whereby the
hills are avoided. That that portion of the road which is
situated between the borders and Boroughbridge is vet
only ill-made, narrow, crooked, and dangerous, but is at the
same time carried to the tops of the loftiest mountains and
the bottoms of the deepest vallies, rendering it totally un'
fit for public communication and intercourse. That your
memorialists have no power to go beyond the boundaries
of Scotland to obtain a survey, or to employ engineers t°
suggest the best and most approved line to conduet the
projected road, through the counties of Northumberland?
Durham, and York, as far as Boroughbridge ; but that if
this was accomplished, your memorialists rely on their
being able to apply to the gentlemen of the English counties
with success, for their aid and support in carrying this
road into effect, which, while it is of the greatest conse-
quence to the national interests of Scotland, in a political,
judicial, and commercial point of view, holds out at the
same time considerable local advantages by intersecting.
with a great line of communication one of the most remote?
inaccessible, and least improved districts of England.
Your memorialists trust that the mere statement of these
facts will be sufficient to point out the importance
object, and that your Lordships will be pleased to direct
Mr. Telford to make a survey and report on the nature and
practicability of this road, in the same manner your Lord'
ships have employed him on the Holyhead and Carlisle
roads, in order to enable your memorialists to lay the Vane
before the gentlemen of the English counties, for the pure
pose of obtaining their concurrence in an application t:1
Parliament for leave to bring in a Bill to carry this &dice
into effect. of 610

(Signed) Athol!. Iledesdale.
Stafford. W. Dumb's.
Minto. J. Drummond.
Melville. Thomas Mackenzie•

July, 1819.

APPENDIX, NO. 2.

MEMORIAL FROM LORD VISCOUNT MORPET

AND OTHERS.
To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Id

Majesty's Ti easury.
The Memorial of the several Persons whose Names It'i

hereunder written,.—
Sheweth,—That your Memorialists, understanding that
Mr. Thomas Telford, civil engineer, has received directionl
from your Lordships to survey and make a report of a pro'
posed new line of road through West Auckland, in Oil
county of Durham, and Corbridge, in the county e
Northumberland, to Jedburgh in Scotland, with a view
shortening the communication between London and E.ll
burgh ; humbly represent to your Lordships that the
conceive a shorter and more commodious line of road °,
the public may be obtained from Greta Bridge, throulll
Alstone, Knaresdale, Denton, Askerton, and Bewcastle ,
the counties of Cumberland and Northumberland, to Ned
castleton, in Scotland, from which place there is nova
straight and direct line of road to Edinburgh.
Your memorialists therefore pray that your Lordsh!
will take the subject into your consideration, and will gic
such orders and directions to Mr. Telford for making
survey of the said line of road from Greta Bridge to Net
castleton, and to report thereon to your Lordships.
(Signed) Morpeth. Thomas Parker.
Jacob Maude. George Bnustead.
R. Moun'ey. J. Graharn,of Edme
Gi S. Mounsey. castle.
William Sisson. T. H. Graham.
G. G. Mounsey. W. P. Johnson, of v;
T. Rainshay. ton-house.
T. Wallace. Quintin Blackburn,
George Gilhanks. Thomas Ramshay, /1/
R. Richardson. George Graham.
Thos. Park. Thomas Mill.
Joseph Park. James Graham.
Thos. Haugh. John Burrough.
Win. Martin. William Richardson'
John Scott. William Tinting.
Thos. Corbett. H. Lancaster.
Josh. Forster. Thomas Halliburte
J. Hetherington. Thomas Gill.
Wm. Milburn. Lancelot Townley.
John Waugh. Joseph 11. Brown.
Thos. Richardson.
October, 1819.

APPENDIX, NO. 3.
MEMORIAL FROM THE EARL OF HOME, -
EARL OF HADDINGTON, AND OTHER'
To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners °f
Majesty's Treasury.
The Memorial of the several Noblemen and Gentled
whose Names are hereto subscribed,—
Sheweth,—That on the memorial of several noble:
and gentlemen presented to your Lordships last year,
ji
were pleased to direct Mr. Telford to survey part of
of road from Boroughbridge by West Auckland Andari
burgh to Edinburgh, with the view of making a ell,
line of communication between London and Edinburiii
That the memorialists conceiving that a still more c/,
ble line of communication between the two capitslioi,,
be made, beg leave to state that by the turnpike"(
which leaves the present mail-road at Motpeth and Ifh
ceeds by Wooler to Edinburgh, the distance is alrey
miles shorter than by the present snail-road by Bey,
and may be still further shortened and greatly impel
That not only will this line be found to approach 'of,
in shortness the one suggested by Jedburgh, but as lips,
road and as a general line of communication will be
p,
greatly preferable, by passing through the great to,'" 0
far as Morpeth and Wooler, and afterwards by °el,,j
other towns in Scotland ;—whereas the line by Jed, .
would for the most part pass through a desert countoo",
inland, and would be very liable to be obstructed 1)1
without a population sufli&ent to clear it speedily. ~
That the trustees on that part of the road front MO'f,
to Edinburgh, which lies in Scotland, haying had
of it made by the late Mr. Abercrombie,
a very eol/
road surveyor, have already at a great expense ex'part of the improvements suggested by him, and al
ceeding to execute others as speedily as the muds °
several trusty will permit, but stilt a' part of tbej
through N'orthumberland,f,atol particulallr where iti),
over Riniside Moor is steep and incommodious ; tip
Sects, however, of this part of the road, the inesnersh
are satisfied might be easily removed, and the geveroi
periority of the whole line ascertained, were a proper of
of the country made by a skilful engineer, but this ep
neither the powers nor the means of the mesnorialist6
theist to direct.
The memorialists therefore pray, that in order eeto;
tain the eligibility as a line of communication V,ei
London and Edinburgh, your Lordships will be pie
direct Mr. Telford to make a surrey of the road ft frof. '-
petit by Wooler to Edinburgh, in the same msnoe