The Construction of Roads and Streets: With Historical Sketch of the Development of the Art of Road-makingSt. Bride's Press, 1899 - 260 pages |
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Page 246 - O premises shown in a provisional apportionment as liable to be charged with any part of the expenses of executing the works may, by written notice served on the urban authority, object to the proposals of the urban authority on any of the following grounds...
Page 253 - All powers given by this Act shall be deemed to be in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers conferred by Act of Parliament, law, or custom...
Page 10 - They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer. What, .therefore, must it be after a winter? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts ; for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.
Page 245 - An estimate of the probable expenses of the works ; (c.) A provisional apportionment of the estimated expenses among the premises liable to be charged therewith under this Act.
Page 9 - I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art, Roads. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down.
Page 245 - Where any street or part of a street Private is not sewered, levelled, paved, metalled, flagged, street works channelled, made good, and lighted to the satisfaction of the urban authority, the urban authority may from time to time resolve with respect to such street or part of a street to do...
Page 1 - Engineer, being the art of directing the Great Sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 15 - Four of these six inches are to be first put on and worked in by carriages and horses ; care being taken to rake in the ruts until the surface becomes firm and consolidated, after which the remaining two inches are to be put on.
Page 234 - includes any highway (not being a turn• pike road), and any public bridge (not being a county bridge), and any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not...
Page 15 - All the irregularities of the upper part of the said pavement are to be broken off by the hammer, and all the interstices are to be filled with stone chips, firmly wedged or packed by hand with a light hammer, so that when the whole pavement is finished, there shall be a convexity of four inches in the breadth of fifteen feet from the centre.