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Presentment for expences of lowering hills, building and repairing bridges, gullets, &c. on public roads, either on county or barony.
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53. It shall be lawful for the grand jury of the said county, application having been previously made at presentment sessions as herein-after directed, to present such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for lowering any hill, or filling up any hollow, or both, on any public road, and for making the road thereon, with stones and gravel, or for building, rebuilding, repairing, altering, or enlarging any bridge, pipe, arch, or gullet, built of stones or bricks or wood, under or on any such road, or filling or gravelling over any such bridge, arch, pipe, or gullet, or for building or repairing any wall or part of a wall necessary to the support of or to prevent any steep banks of earth from falling upon any such road, or for erecting any fence, railing, or wall for the protection of travellers from dangerous precipices or holes on the side of any public road, to be raised either off the county at large, or off the barony or baronies in which the same may be locally situate.
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