HOUSE OF COMMONS
NOTICES OF MOTIONS
At the evening sitting
Viscount Enfield—To ask the right hon. member for Petersfield (as a commissioner of the metropolitan roads north of the Thames) whether he can stay the number turnpike gates and side bars that have been recently removed, the number of new gates and bars erected in their place, and upon what principle the distribution of these gates and side bars has been allotted to the different metropolitan parishes.
Morning Post — Saturday 16 July 1864
METROPOLITAN TURNPIKES
Viscount ENFIELD asked the right hon. member for Petersfield (as a commissioner of the metropolitan roads north of the Thames), whether he could state the nnmber of turnpike gates and side bars that had been recently removed, the number of new gates and bars erected in their place, and upon what principle the distribution of these gates and side bars had been allotted to the different metropolitan parishes?
Sir W. JOLLIFFE said that 25 turnpike gates and 54 side bars had been removed. The number of miles of road which had been given over to the parishes was 55; the number of miles which had been continued as turnpike roads was 67; the number of new gates was 9, and of side bars 8. Tho total number of places at which tolls were collected was now 31, in place of 93. There were now 13 districts, and the gates had been placed in strict conformity with the provisions of the turnpike acts, and the measure of last session, the 41st section of which gave power to any district to convert their roads into parish roads.