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 PART SECOND.

COMMISSIONERS AND OFFICERS EMPLOYED UNDER THEM.

The care of the Turnpike Roads has been committed by Parliament, into the hands of Commissioners, selected from that class of society, most capable of executing the duties of superintendance, and from their station most likely to perform the duty with fidelity; in this respect the expectations of the public has not been disappointed; and there can be but one opinion, upon the obligations the country owes to this very respectable part of the community. Perhaps the only useful regulation wanted, in respect to Commissioners, would be to confine the qualification of Trustees to landed property.

The superintending and controuling power, so wisely placed by Parliament in the Commissioners, has not, however, been sufficient to