In your experience have you found that the common mode of employing paupers by day-work, is inefficient both to the improvement of the roads and to the object of relieving the parishes?—It may have the effect of relieving the parishes, but I should think it a very bad mode of mending the roads; inasmuch as these men, when they have got day-wages, will do very little, and for that reason I employ all our men on piece-work; we have two hundred and eighty labourers in the district of Bristol, and they are almost all on piece-work; it is very seldom we employ men by the day. I was directed by the Committee, at their last meeting, to produce some more detailed accounts respecting the Bristol district: in obedience to that order, I have obtained the report made by me at the end of the first and second year of my administration, which I beg to submit to the Committee, together with the resolution of the commissioners thereon. [_The following Papers were delivered in, and read:_] EXPENDITURE on the BRISTOL ROADS. In the year 1815, previous to the alteration of management, there was paid £. 14,285 2 1 An unpaid floating debt of 1,400 0 0 ————————————— Total expense of 1815, to 25th March 1816 £. 15,685 2 1 ============= Alteration of management, commenced 16th January, 1816. In 1816, outlay was £.16,127 5 1 Deduct accounts of 1815 £.1,400 Paid into 5 per cent. fund, about 340 ——————— 1,740 0 0 ———————————— Total expense of roads, to March 1817 £.14,387 5 1 ============= In 1817, outlay was £.15,830 4 11 Of which, permanent improvements cost £.1,500 Paid to 5 per cent. fund, about 200 Paid for a general survey and plans 340 Whitchurch Bridge repairs 320 ——————— 2,360 0 0 ———————————— Total expenditure for roads, to 25 March 1818 £.13,470 4 11 ============= BRISTOL TURNPIKES. Report of Mr. John Loudon MᶜAdam, to a General Meeting of Commissioners, 2d June 1817. Since I had the honour of reporting to the meeting of commissioners on the 2d of March last, the amendment of the roads has proceeded with success, and at present there are no parts of the roads of the Bristol district in a bad state.