7. Fix time and place for next meeting to secure district General Meeting of Trustees held as intimated on 19th ult. 2. Approve of officers' salaries, as fixed by board. § 30. 4. Resolve to pay off debts (if ready to do so). § 72. 5. Instruct notice to creditors of intention to pay off debts 1882. Monday, May 1. Annual balance of trustees' accounts, and audit of same by an Monday, auditor appointed by the sheriff. § 120. May 15. Intimation to each member of district committees of meetings to Monday, be held on Friday 1st prox., to make report of their proceed- July 17. ings to board, and accounts of their receipts and expenditure, and to resolve as to any roads to be added to or removed from list. § 26. Meeting of District Committees held for the purposes intimated. Friday. $ 26. July 28. Intimation of meeting of board to be held on Friday 25th Monday, August, to make annual report of their proceedings for trustees, Aug. 14. with detailed accounts of receipts and expenditure. § 26. Meeting of Board. Business: 1. Reports of district committees and their accounts, if any; 2. Accounts of trustees or board to be submitted (if any) for 3. Report to trustees, if board recommend any highways 4. Reports of board's proceedings to trustees to be made. Friday, 1882. Wednes day, Aug. 30. Friday, Tuesday, committee's accounts annexed, and sent to each trustee before annual meeting in October.) § 26. 5. Allocation of general expenditure may be unnecessary for first year or two, if there are other funds available. § 30. 6. Recommend rates of assessment for payment of debt or interest thereon, and maintenance assessment for different districts. §§ 52, 71, 74. 7. Valuation and allocation of debts, so far as ready. §§ 65, 66. 8. Arrange as to borrowing, if likely to resolve to pay off debts at trustees first annual meeting § 75. Intimation by "special advertisement" and printed notices on church doors of board's recommendation (if any such) that a highway should cease, or that a road should become a highway. § 42. Forms of special advertisement used in Perthshire for such purposes. See Appendix, p. 154. Intimation of Annual General Statutory Meeting of Trustees to be held on Tuesday 3d October next. § 21. Intimation of Meeting of Burgh Local Authorities to be held on 29th curt. to impose assessments. § 86. Note.-Unnecessary to call Special Meeting for this Annual General Statutory Meeting of Trustees held. 1. Elect chairman for year. § 21. 2. Appoint board. § 15. 3. Appoint district committees. § 16. 4. Consider board's written report, recommending that a highway should cease to be such, or that a road should become a highway and be added to the list, and being satisfied of due intimation of such, to declare accordingly. § 42. 5. Consider board and district committees' reports of proceedings and accounts respectively. § 26. 6. Approve of board's resolution to construct new roads and bridges, and arrange for payment of expense of construction (not likely business for first year). § 58. 7. Assess for payment of expense of construction of new roads and bridges. § 58. Note. All assessments under the Act are deemed to be from 15th May preceding date of imposing same. § 82. 8. Assess for payment of allocated and valued debts, agreed If not ready to resolve to pay off debts, assess for interest 9. Assess for expenses of management and maintenance. 10. Fix date for payment of assessments (not earlier than 11. Resolve to pay off debts at Whitsunday 1883 (if ready to do so). § 72. 12. Resolve, if necessary, to borrow on security of assessments for payment of debts. § 75. 13. Fix day-say Friday, 1st December next (not less than fourteen days before date when assessments payable— 2d January), for lodging appeals against assessments with road clerk, or district clerks in case of insular districts, and fix day-say Friday, 29th December next (not less than fourteen days thereafter), for board, or district committees in case of insular districts, to hear and determine such appeals. § 84. 14. Accounts audited on 15th May last to be submitted. § 120. 15. Chairman's or preses' signature to minutes may be ad hibited at present or next meeting. §§ 105, 106. 15. 1882. Annual Meeting of Burgh Local Authorities held, inter alia, to Friday, impose assessments for the purposes of the Act 1878. § 86. Sept. 29. Notice of assessments to be sent out specifying date of payment Wednes-2d January next, and fixing (1) date for lodging appeals day, Nov. against same, and (2) date for hearing and determining same. § 84. Intimation to Board (and District Committees, in case of insular Saturday, districts) of meetings to be held on Friday 29th inst., to hear Dec. 16. and determine appeals. § 84. Meetings of Board and District Committees respectively held to Friday, hear and determine appeals against assessments, and to relieve Dec. 29. if necessary, on ground of poverty, occupiers under £4 rental. $ 84. Assessments imposed under the Act payable as fixed, 29th Sep- Tuesday, tember. § 82. 1883. Jan. 2. APPENDIX. FORMS REFERRED то. To the Inspector of Poor of the Parish of METHVEN CASTLE, PERTH, 30th November 1878. SIR, The Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act, 1878, was yesterday adopted by the Commissioners of Supply of this county; and it is now my duty, under the 13th section of said Act, to call meetings of the ratepayers in each parish to elect two or more trustees, as the case may be, for the purposes of said Act. The Act directs these meetings to be called in such convenient place in each parish as the convener of the county may appoint, on not less than ten days' notice, given by special advertisement," which means that the notice must be published once in at least two local newspapers. Perhaps you will be good enough to consult the chairman of your parochial board or the minister of your parish, as to the most convenient place, day, and hour for holding the meeting in your parish, and report what is recommended, on receipt, if possible, to Mr Wm. MacLeish, clerk of supply, County Buildings, Perth; and at the same time state what newspapers have the largest circulation in your parish. Please observe that I would like the meeting to be held as early as possible, but, of course, in fixing the date, ample time must be allowed for the notice of ten days required to be given. I may add that it is provided under said section that inspectors of poor shall be bound to produce at the meeting of the ratepayers the valuation roll of the parish. If you are not in possession of a сору of the roll, or cannot get it from the clerk of the parochial board, Mr MacLeish will endeavour to supply you on your making application to him.-1 am, Your obedient servant, I enclose a few copies of the advertisement calling the meetings of the ratepayers of the parishes of the county for the election of trustees; and perhaps you will kindly endeavour to get the same posted up in conspicuous places throughout your parish-say, on the church doors of the different places of worship. You might also be good enough to see that the place of meeting is secured. As it would be difficult to give effect to the various recommendations in regard to the advertisement calling the meetings, it has been thought advisable to make one advertisement include the whole parishes, and confine the insertion of it to two of the Perth newspapers, which is all that is required under the Act, and this, along with the posting on church doors, &c., should be sufficient publication. The advertisement will, therefore, only appear in the Perthshire Constitutional and Journal and Perthshire Advertiser of this date. I also enclose a statement giving the clauses of the Act bearing on the election. Please attend to its requirements so far as you are concerned, and hand the statement, and also the form of certificate of election now sent, to whoever is appointed chairman of the meeting. Your obedient Servant, To the Clerk of the Police Burgh of ..... WILLIAM SMYTHE, Convener of the County. METHVEN CASTLE, PERTH, 7th December 1878. SIR,-You are no doubt aware that the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act, 1878, was adopted in this county on the 29th ult.; and I think it right to call your attention to the 12th section of that Act, which (subsection 4) provides that two persons appointed from time to time from among their own number by the Commissioners of Police of any police burgh within, or partly within, the county, shall be county road trustees. Police burgh is defined by the Act to mean every populous place the boundaries whereof have been fixed and ascertained under the General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, or of the Act first therein recited, or have been determined by or under any local Act, provided that the population of such populous place shall not have been ascertained in the manner described in the 7th clause of the Act of 1862, within three months of the commencement of this Act, to exceed 5000.-Your obedient servant, To WILIAM SMYTHE, Esq., of Methven, Convener of the County of Perth. WILLIAM SMYTHE, December 1878. I hereby certify that at a meeting of the ratepayers of the parish of the following persons of their own number were elected as county road trustees under the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act, 1878, viz. NAMES. DESIGNATION. Chairman of the said Meeting. |