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MAIN ROADS.
You have only one Road which is a Main Road by Act of
Parliament, viz.: Commercial Road; and this the County Council
are liable to maintain.
You are entitled to elect to maintain the Road, and receive
the cost from the Council; and you did so elect.
The Council, however, only offer you the sum formerly paid
by the Treasury as a contribution in aid of disturnpiked roads,
viz.: £257 11s. per annum.
The cost of cleansing and watering this Road for the past
year was £499 11s. 6d., to this must be added the cost of maintaining
the carriage and footways.
The Council have the power, on your application, to declare
any road a Main Road, and therefore reparable at the cost of
the county; and it seems difficult to think that at any rate the
Mile End Road which is the great highway from London to
Essex and all the Eastern Counties, should not be deemed a
Main Road.
An Arbitrator appointed by the Board of Trade will most
likely have to decide the amount to be paid to you in respect of
the Commercial Road.