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Presentment on barony for repairs of roads and footpaths by contract for term not exceeding five years.
Proviso if contractor fails to do repairs.
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57. It shall be lawful for the grand jury of the said county to present any public road within such county, or any part of such public road, or any footpath upon the side of such road, to be gravelled or repaired with broken stone, or the battlements of any bridge upon such road to be kept in sufficient order and repair, by contract, for any space of time not exceeding five years, and also from time to time to present such sum or sums of money as shall be necessary for the execution of any of the above-mentioned works, and the payment of the person or persons with whom such contract for the execution of the same shall have been made, to be levied or raised off any barony or baronies in which such road may be locally situate, and when it passes through more than one barony then proportionally on each barony: Provided always, that in case it shall appear to any district surveyor, at any time during the continuance of any contract for keeping any road in repair, that such road is not in proper repair, he shall require the contractor to put the same in repair; and if such contractor shall neglect to do so within ten days after he shall have been so required, such surveyor shall cause the same to be repaired, and the expence thereof shall be deducted and repaid out of the sum which would be payable to such contractor if the road had been kept in proper repair.
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