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immediately after the said Conveyances executed acknowledged and
inrolled as aforesaid shall by virtue of this Act Vest in the Rever-
sioner or Reversioners of the said Land called Fansley [Fausley] in
the same manner as the Reversion of the same Land is now vested in
him her or them.

Liber H. S.
No. I

9.^th Novem- 1753
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M Macnemara Cl lo ho.

On behalf of the Right
Hon^ble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this be a Law
Hor.° Sharpe

the great seal in
Wax Appendant

9 Novem.^r 1753
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl Up Ho.

No. 15 An Act for repairing the Public Roads in this Province.

Whereas, it is represented to this General Assembly, That the
erecting and making Mill-Dams on Branches, where formerly the
main or public Roads passed, and the Narrowness of such Dams,
and the Flood-Gates to the same, have been a great Obstruction
and Hindrance to Carriage, and travelling on the public Roads:
For Remedy whereof, it is prayed that it may be Enacted,

[Preamble.]

II. And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That where any Person or Persons have
built or shall build, a Mill or Mills on any Branch or Run, where
any public or main Road crossed, or shall cross, and have erected or
shall erect, any Dam for such Mill or Mills, such Person or Persons,
or the Owner, Possessor, or Occupier, of such Mill or Mills shall,
and they are hereby obliged to make the Top of the said Dam Twelve
Feet wide at the least, and make good and sufficient Bridges over
the Waste and Race of the said Mills and Dams, and the same keep
in good Repair: And where any Mill hereafter to be erected shall
obstruct any public Road, and it shall be thought convenient by the
Justices of the said County Court, where such Mill is so erected, that

[Roads to be
made good,
and 12 Feet
wide, where
Mill Dams
are built, and
Bridges, and
to be kept in
good Re-
pair.]

the said public Road shall pass below the Dam of the said Mill, or
where such public Road now passes below the Dam of any such
Mill or Mills, that then, and in every such Case, the Owner or
Owners, Possessor or Occupier, of such Mill or Mills, shall, and
they are hereby required to raise and make a good and sufficient
Causway across the Branch on which the said Mill is built, Twelve
Feet wide, and make a good and substantial Bridge over the Tail
of the said Mill, and the same keep in good Repair; and if the Owner
or Owners, Possessor or Occupier, of any such Mill or Mills, shall
refuse or neglect to do what is by this Act required, and shall be
thereof legally convict, he, she, or they, shall forfeit and pay the

p. 31

Sum of Twenty Pounds Current Money; the one Half thereof to
be applied towards defraying the Charge of the County, where such

[Penalty on
Neglect.]