APPENDIX, No. V.

THE following are the principal Clauses of the Act, 50 Geo. III. c. 120., for the management of the common Highways in the County of Forfar.

III. And be it enacted, that the said county be divided into four districts, as follows, viz:- the first district comprehending the parishes of Dundee, Strathmartin, Monikie, Auchterhouse, Liff and Benvie, Monifieth, Mains, Murroes, Tealing, Lundie, Kettins, and Foulis, or such parts of them as are in the county of Forfar; the place of meeting being Dundee: the second district comprehending the parishes of Forfar, Kerriemuir, Inverarity, Glammiss, Kennettles, Cortachie and Clova, Dunichen, Rescobie, Lintrathen, Coupar, Airley, Kingoldrum, Eassi and Navy, Ruthven, Glenisla, Newtyle, or such parts of them as are in the county of Forfar; the place of meeting being Forfar: the third district comprehending the parishes of Brechin, Montrose, Marytown, Farnwell and Kinnaird, Fearn, Menmuir, Lethnot, Strackathro, Edzell, Lochlee, Dun, Caroldston, Craig, Logie and Pert, Oathlaw, Aberlemno, Tannadice; the place of meeting being Brechin: the fourth district comprehending the parishes of Arbroath, Carmylie, Barrie, Lunan, Panbride, Kirkden, Guthrie,

Saint Vigeans, Kinnel, Inverkeiller, Arberlot; the place of meeting being Arbroath.

V. And be it further enacted, that every person who is at present, or hereafter shall be in his own right, or in the right of his wife, in the actual possession and enjoyment as proprietor or life-renter of the full property or dominium utile of lands in the county of Forfar, valued in the cess books of the said county, to the extent of 100%. Scots, and all and every the eldest sons of such persons, and one guardian or trustee of minors possessed of lands to that extent, and all persons in the commission of the peace of the said county, who shall have qualified accordingly, the provost and the two eldest baillies in each of the five royal burghs within the county for the time being, and the sheriff depute and sheriff substitute of the said county for the time being, shall be, and they are hereby nominated and appointed trustees for the surveying, ordering, repairing, and keeping in repair the roads and highways, and for building new bridges, where the same shall be found necessary, in the said county: provided always, that every trustee qualified to act as being a proprietor or life-renter of lands within the said county, shall and may execute the powers hereby granted in any of the districts herein-before described, wherein his principal residence shall be, although such trustee shall not be possessed of any lands or heritages within such district.

VII. And be it enacted, that from and after the first day of July, 1810, all occupiers of lands, whether proprietors or tenants, shall be liable to pay yearly an assessment or conversion money, in lieu of statute labour, for the lands occupied by them respectively, according as the said lands stand valued in the cess books of the

county, at a rate not exceeding the sum of 21. 8s. sterling, for each 100%. Scots of such valued rent: provided always, that if the majority of trustees of any particular district or districts within the county, at a regular meeting or meetings, held, and previously intimated for the purpose, shall desire the maximum to be raised to 3. sterling for each 100l. Scots of valued rent, either for the whole district, or any particular parish or parishes therein, the trustees of such district or districts may apply to the annual general meeting of the county; and in that case, such annual general meeting shall have power, and is hereby authorized to assess the district or districts so applying, or any particular parish or parishes therein, in any sum not exceeding 37. sterling, for and upon each 100l. Scots of valued rent; and that for any year in which the application is made, and for any year or years thereafter, when similar applications are repeated: provided always, that in the case of a partial assessment upon any particular parish or parishes, a majority in number of heritors, qualified to act as trustees in such parish or parishes, shall concur in the application for increasing the rate of assessment as aforesaid; and all occupiers of burgh roods, or lands lying in the territory of royal burghs, whether proprietors or tenants, shall pay, as an assessment or conversion for statute labour, a sum not exceeding 6d. sterling, per annum, for each 17. sterling of yearly real rent, payable for burgh land so occupied by them, which shall be diminished in the same proportion that the aforesaid assessment or conversion of lands in the parish shall be diminished, as herein-after mentioned, below the 27. 8s. sterling, for each 100%. Scots of valued rent; and where any person or persons occupy any profitable land, on which a horse or horses,

ox or oxen, are employed or used for its working or improvement, which lands are not valued in the cess books of the county, the said person or persons shall pay, as an assessment or conversion money for statute labour, a sum not exceeding 3s. sterling for each horse, and not exceeding 1s. 6d. sterling for each ox; all those keeping coaches or chaises for private use, or to be let to hire, shall pay yearly, as an assessment or conversion money for statute labour, 12s. sterling for each coach or chaise, having four wheels; and 6s. sterling for each chaise, chair, or gig, having two wheels, whether for private use or for hire; and all innkeepers, carters, carriers, and other persons keeping horses for hire, or for carrying goods in their carts for hire, shall pay, as an assessment or conversion money for statute labour, for such horses, a sum not exceeding 4s. 6d. sterling, yearly, for each horse so kept for hire; and all householders or inhabitants of royal burghs and villages, that now are or hereafter may be erected, and the occupier or occupiers of any house within the said county, not having any cultivated or profitable lands, except a garden annexed thereto, shall, in place of their statute labour, pay yearly an assessment or conversion money, not exceeding 1s. sterling, for every dwelling house occupied by them, whereof the yearly rent is 17. 10s. and under 37. sterling; an assessment or conversion not exceeding 1s. 6d. sterling, for every dwelling house occupied by them, whereof the yearly rent is 37. and under 51. sterling; and for every dwelling house occupied by them, whereof the yearly rent is 57. or upwards, two and a half per centum per annum, for and upon the amount of yearly rent; and all persons who keep carriage or saddle horses, shall pay yearly an assessment not exceed

ing 68. sterling for each horse (exclusive of the above rate for coaches, chaises, chairs, or gigs let for hire); which said assessments or conversions shall be diminished in the same proportion that the aforesaid assessment of 21. 88. sterling on each 1007. Scots of valued rent, shall be diminished in each parish, as herein-after mentioned, declaring that all the aforesaid assessments shall be made and payable in each year, during the existence of this act.

XIII. And be it enacted, that the said trustees, or any seven or more of them, shall, in order to carry this act into execution, meet at Forfar, upon the second Monday after the passing of this act, and shall afterwards meet at the same place upon the first Tuesday after the 29th day of September, 1810, and thereafter, yearly, upon the same day and at the same place that the commissioners of supply shall be directed by the land tax act of the year then current to assemble; and upon the first Tuesday after the 29th day of September yearly; and the said trustees shall, at the said general meetings, have power to adjourn, from time to time, as they see cause, and to name a preses or chairman of their meeting, and a clerk, during pleasure, who shall attend the meetings of the said trustees, and shall enter their whole proceedings regularly in a book to be kept for that purpose; and likewise shall, as often as required by any person or persons having an interest in the same, make and give out copies or extracts of the orders or proceedings of the trustees, within three days after such requisition (at such certain moderate fees for the same as shall be fixed by the said trustees in a general meeting assembled); and such copies or extracts shall contain the warrant for putting these orders into execu