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Remarks on the Present System of Road Making: With Observations, Deduced from Practice and Experience, With a View to a Revision of the Existing Laws, and the Introduction of Improvement in the Method of Making, Repairing, and Preserving Roads, and Defending the Road Funds from Misapplication. Seventh Edition, Carefully Revised, With an Appendix, and Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, June 1823, with Extracts from the EvidenceMcAdam, John Loudon

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Remarks on the Present System of Road Making: With Observations, Deduced from Practice and Experience, With a View to a Revision of the Existing Laws, and the Introduction of Improvement in the Method of Making, Repairing, and Preserving Roads, and Defending the Road Funds from Misapplication. Seventh Edition, Carefully Revised, With an Appendix, and Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, June 1823, with Extracts from the Evidence

Name: Remarks on the Present System of Road Making: With Observations, Deduced from Practice and Experience, With a View to a Revision of the Existing Laws, and the Introduction of Improvement in the Method of Making, Repairing, and Preserving Roads, and Defending the Road Funds from Misapplication. Seventh Edition, Carefully Revised, With an Appendix, and Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, June 1823, with Extracts from the Evidence
Author: McAdam, John Loudon

McAdam, John Loudon

Macadam roads; Roads -- Great Britain

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                                 REPORT
                                  FROM
                            SELECT COMMITTEE
                                   ON
                         MR. M’ADAM’S PETITION,
                                  AND
                        _EXTRACTS FROM EVIDENCE_
RELATING TO HIS IMPROVED SYSTEM OF CONSTRUCTING AND REPAIRING THE PUBLIC
                         ROADS OF THE KINGDOM.


  _Ordered, by_ The House of Commons, _to be Printed, 20th June 1823_.




                                REPORT.


  THE SELECT COMMITTEE appointed to take into consideration the Petition
    of Mr. MᶜADAM, and to report to the House, whether any and what
    further pecuniary Grant shall be made to him, either by way of
    payment of his Expenses or as a remuneration for his Services, for
    having introduced into practice an improved System of constructing
    and repairing the PUBLIC ROADS of the Kingdom, or for the management
    of the Funds applicable to the same;—HAVE, pursuant to the Order of
    the House, examined the matters to them referred, and have agreed
    upon the following REPORT:

In presenting to the House the result of their inquiry into the claim
preferred by Mr. MᶜAdam for a compensation for his services, in
consequence of his having devised and introduced into practice an
improved and economical system of repairing, making and managing the
Turnpike Roads of the Kingdom; your Committee will notice, in the first
place, the proceedings which have taken place upon this subject previous
to the institution of the inquiry in which they have been engaged.

It appears from the correspondence and documents obtained from the
Treasury, as well as from the Reports of former Committees of the House,
appointed to inquire into the state of the Highways of the Kingdom, that
the first application made by Mr. MᶜAdam for payment of his expenses,
and remuneration for his services, was in November 1819. This
application was referred by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s
Treasury, by letter, to the Postmasters General, for explanation and
information; who, in reply, transmitted a Report from Mr. Johnson, the
Superintendent of Mailcoaches, stating as follows:—

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