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The Select Committee appointed to take into consideration the Acts now in force regarding the and  in  and , and the expediency of additional Regulations for their better repair and preservation, and to report their Observations thereupon from time to time to the House; and to whom the Petitions of Joseph D. Bassett, John Richards Reed, and John Martin; and of several Trustees of Turn-*pike Roads in the Counties of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, were referred;—, pursuant to the Orders of the House, examined the matters to them referred, and have agreed upon the following REPORT:

Your Committee considered it their indispensable duty to direct their first attention to the Reports of former Committees, appointed to investigate the same important subject; in these Reports, as well as in the documents subjoined to them, are to be found much scientific information, and many valuable suggestions, which have doubtless tended to aid the progress of improvement in the art of making and preserving roads. Still the object of amending the laws which relate to them has been unattained, the