Observations on the Management of Trusts for the Care of Turnpike Roads - Tapa blanda

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1825. Excerpt: ... it shall be thought necessary for amending the particular road on which the Gate is proposed to be erected, or for discharging the debt due thereon. Now, though it is true, as the Committee observe, that the Trustees appointed under the Act, are Trustees for all the roads, and not for those particular roads only on which they act, and consequently when assembled at a General Meeting, they are bound to consider the interests and to act for the general benefit of all the roads, so far as the powers given to them extend; yet it is equally true, as will clearly appear from an attentive consideration of the provisions and general tenor and spirit of the Act, that when assembled at their separate Meetings for the care of any particular district, it is the duty of the Trustees to attend to the interests of that district only, as independent of the other roads as if they were acting under distinct Acts of Parliament. This being admitted, it is not to be supposed that the Trustees at any separate Meeting, would so far neglect the interests of the road then under their care, as to impose a great and heavy burthen thereon, not required by its own exigencies, with the sole view of ultimately benefiting the other roads. The obvious object of the Legislature in di·viding the roads round the City into separate Districts, having separate Funds, applicable to their own separate wants and occasions, was to prevent the injustice which might otherwise arise, if it were in the power of the Trustees, acting as a body, to compel the inhabitants of one district to pay for the improvements made oft the roads in an opposite direction: And although the strictness of this principle is, to a certain extent, relaxed, by the clause in the Act, which empowers the Trustees at a General Meeting, if there shoul...