Hyde Park And Kensington,...
The Times, 1824-11-02T00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMRS. Sir.-Your insertion lately of the letter of one of your corresponj. ents, 7especting the contduct of some of the toll-collecrors on this road, has been the mcans of the Commissioners putting up a boar4t at te Hyde parkg-gte. vwitha very short extract froma clause in the last General Turnpike Act, as to any collector refusing or omitting *o nive a ticket sn payment of the toll; but as the clause contains rmch more than the public will learn from this extract. I au) sure you will clieerfully accommodate them, by the insertion in vour paper of the clauxe at length, and wiich I subjoin: and whilst on the subject of these gatei, will you permit me to ask why the Corn- missiornes have pltaced the board I have alluled to in such a situation as thiat the person paying the toll cannot see it, his iace being neceAsarily turned from it ? Why is it not pllacedl immediately in front, instead of opoosite to the toll. house? MWhy not at all the gates at which t611 is demandable? and why, as the act waq Passed in July, 1823, was this useful noti- fication de.erred ull now? It reallv seems absolutely necessary that some other mode than the present should be adopted for the mnaac- mcnt of these imTortant roadi gencrally. I find from the votes of the last session 9, Parliament, that Lord Lowther's notice of his intmnded mo:ioiftor a committee on thc management of the turnpike. roads roux,ds the metropolis, and their trusts, stands for the next session; and that the nublic should be relieved from all knavery in the collection, and anyjobbery or mismanagenient in the atplication nrf l-o -f.,t? ; 1 * s _. , Y. - -2 - - - to w De wlshed. 4 GEo. TV. CAP. :5, SECT. 0.-" And be it further enacted, that every t-ll collector on every turnpike-road, shall place or cause to bo) placed on some conspicuous parts of the fronts of the several toll.houses at which they shall be respectively stationed, and so that tie same shail appear to public view, their christian and surnames painted in black, on a board with a white grotind, each of such Ictters of suclh niame or names to be at least two inches in length, and of a breadthi in proportion; anti that such board shall be and remain at such toll-house during the whole of the time that the persont whose name shall he expressed thereon shail be on dutty thereat; and if .ny collector of the ssid tolls shaU not place such board, and keep the sane there turing the time he shall be such collector as aforesaid, . r shall demand and take a greater or less toll from any Person than he shall be authiorized to. do by virtue of the pDwers of any act, or of the orders and resolutionis of the trustees or commissioners mnade in pursuance thereof, or shiall 4emand and take a toll from any person or persons whle shall be exempt from the payment thereof, and who shall claim such exemption, or shall refuse to per- mit or suffer any person or persona to read, or shall in any- wise hind(er any pert>i or persons fromi reading, the inscriptions on such board, or shall refuse to tell his christian and surname to any person or persons who shall demand the same on being paid the said tolls,or any of them, or shall, in answer to such demand, give a false name or names, or shall refiuse or omnit to give to the per- son paying the toll a ticket denoting the payment of the t,ll6, and naming and specifying the toll-gate at which such ticket ham been delivered, and the toll-gate or toll.gates (if any) free( bv jfCh payment, or upon the legal toll being paid or tendered, shaTl ionecessarily detain, or wilfully obstruct, hinder, or prevent anty passenger or passengers frotm passing through any turnpike or toll- gate, or shall make use of any scurrilous or abusive language to any trustee or commissioner, traveller or passenger; then, and in every sluch case, every such toll-collector shall forfeit and pay any sum not exe.eding 51. for cvery such offence." HlYDE PARK AYrD KEATgVNGTON, 4,., TURNPIKE. GATErS.