, 1866-11-20

not broken sufficiently small the proper size
is one cubic inch. Another and a very serious
defect claims also your special attention, name
ly, that the Public Roads in many places re-
quire raising by filling up in the Center so
that a gentle inclination on both sides from the
Center to the trench shall carry off the water
from the roads. Where such portions of road
occur, I demand and insist, that the requisite
filling with proper materials be perforined-a
Public Road hollow in the center is totally
inadmissable and must at once be remedled
before further injury is caused.
All trenches to be properly cleaned out, to
be of sufficient width and depth to carry off
the water, to be made sloping from the side
of the roads so that no precipitous descent
towards the trench shall occur.
The dirt, mud, grass sc. which is taken out
of the trenches must not be thrown on the
fences, but should be removed to a range or
piece. of waste land, unless permission be OBJ
tanned to throw it over the fences or on the
inside of the bank, sufficiently far to prevent
it's returning or falling back into the trench
at all events it is not permitted that stuff or
filth of that description shall remain longer ON
the sides of the roads than is necessary for its
speedy removal it is totally prohibited TO
spread such filth on the roads.
All bridges and drains to be carefully ex-
amined, distractions removed and repaired
where required, also to SEQ that their covering
be substantial, and barge-walls erected at their
extremities, where such may be deficient, and
that these barge-walls are kept white-washed as
q guide in travelling at night.
All pavements to be solidly repaired and
their surface made smooth and even.
On all dangerous places, such protection to
be established and maintained as is prescribed
in the 10 5 Part LIST of the Road Ordinance.
In repairing the roads care to be taken not to
injure the trees growing by their sides-on
which subject / refer you to the cOmmunica-
ton from Government dated the 1st November
1o5y-translated and circulated In my Circular
to you of 9Th November that year.
/ have also to remind you for general infor-
nation of His Excellency Governor General
Won Scholten's regulations of 30th November
1927, whereby all proprietors are required to
keep the Public Roads, which pass through
their Estates or along the boundaries of their
Estates, free from all large loose stones, branch
es of mountain-cabbage or cocoa-nut trees,
c~ocoa-not shells, or the husks thereof, or any
other description of rubbish whatsoever, so that
the Public Roads shall 6etTee and clean, under
a penalty Of twelve Pieces of Eight aud four
bits for every instance of neglect; by my
order of 5th August last this was again circu-
lated through every quarter of the Island, but
requires to be frequently repeated ;-as also.
the trimming of the lower branches of trees
which hang over the roads, so asnot to inconveni-
ence travelling. Both these Regulations relate
70 the concerned Estates, and which you will
please to make known. The last has been so
often repeated that it must be generally known,
vet Notwithstanding is often disregarded,-and
when so, must at once be visited with the stipu-
lated penalty.
Regarding the weekly reports, I insist on
their being furnished with correctness and
punctuality, to be laid before Government
specially stating the number of people daily
employed as we'll as the daily number of carts,
with such other Remarks as are ~customariIy
made. These returns are valuable as a source
to ascertain the general road-labeur expended
on the Public Roads.
Before I conclude, I would remind proprietors
or their attorneys of the immense benefit good
roads are to their properties, and consequently
the obligation they are under to aid by their
influence (and it is great) the important duties
you are hereby officially called on to perform.
And now, Gentlemen Road Officers, this is in
all probability the last general Instructions |
will ever give. 1t is a long document, impossi-
BILE to be copied in time by yourselves and
Road Inspectors Il will therefore submit to
BIS Excellency the Governor Whose very
great consideration for me ! thus publicly and
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