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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

Should the House adopt their recommendation of renewing the Committee in
another session, the subject of the Highways will naturally engage their
attention as soon as they shall have fully matured the plan for amending
the laws relating to the Turnpike Roads.

 25th _June_, 1819.

                          MINUTES OF EVIDENCE.

                               WITNESSES:

                     Martis, 2º die Martii, 1819:

       _Charles Johnson, Esq._                             p. 81
       _Mr. William Waterhouse_                               84
       _Mr. William Horne_                                    88
       _Mr. John Eames_                                       92

                        Veneris, 21º die Maij:

       _Mr. George Botham_                                    94

                         Jovis, 4º die Martij:

       _John Loudon MᶜAdam, Esq._                             96

                        Martis, 9º die Martij:

       _John Loudon MᶜAdam, Esq._                            117

                        Jovis, 11º die Martij:

       _John Loudon MᶜAdam, Esq._                            134
       _James McAdam, Esq._                                  136
       _Col. Charles Brown_                                  144
       _Ezekiel Harman, Esq._                                145
       _Thomas Bridgeman, Esq._                              146
       _John Martin Cripps, Esq._                        _ibid._
       _W. Dowdeswell, Esq._                                 148

                        Martis, 23º die Martij:

       _Mr. Benjamin Farey_                                  150
       _John Farey, Esq._                                    154

                        Jovis, 25º die Martij:

       _John Farey, Esq._                                    157
       _James Walker, Esq._                                  165

                        Jovis, 1º die Aprilis:

       _Mr. James Dean_                                      182

                          Jovis, 6º die Maij:

       _Thomas Telford, Esq._                                187

                         Martis, 11º die Maij:

       _Mr. Robert Perry_                                    195

       Abstract of Return of Turnpike Roads round London     196

                          MINUTES OF EVIDENCE.

                     _Martis, 2º die Martij, 1819._
                       EDWARD PROTHEROE, ESQUIRE,
                             In the Chair.

          _Charles Johnson_, Esquire, called in; and Examined.

You are surveyor and superintendent of mail coaches under the Post
Master General?—Yes.

How long have you held that office?—Not twelve months yet.

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