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
