An ordinance touching surveyors of the high-waies for this present year, 1654. Wednesday April 12. 1654. Ordered by his Highness the Lord Protector, and His Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council. England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A74513 of text xxx in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E1063_28). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A74513 Thomason E1063_28 ESTC R209581 99868449 99868449 169194 2240929159

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AN ORDINANCE TOUCHING SVRVEYORS OF THE HIGH-WAIES For this present year , 1654.

blazon of the Commonwealth
Wednesday April 12. 1654.

ORdered by his Highness the Lord Protector , and His Council , That this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published .

HENRY SCOBELL Clerk of the Council .

London , Printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills , Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector , 1654.

blazon of the Commonwealth
AN ORDINANCE TOUCHING SURVEYORS of the HIGH-WAIES For this present year , 1654.

WHereas in an Ordinance for better amending and keeping in Repair the Common High-Waies within this Nation , It is Ordained , amongst other things , That two or more able and sufficient Hous-holders , as in that Ordinance is expressed , should be elected and chosen upon the first Tuesday next ensuing the five and twentieth day of March yearly , to be Surveyors of the High-waies within their respective Parishes for the year ensuing ; And whereas by reason of the late publishing of the said Ordinance , the time aforesaid for such election for this year was elapsed , so as such election could not be made on that day in pursuance of the said Ordinance , whereby the benefit intended to the people therby is obstructed ; Be it ordained by his Highness the Lord Protector , by and with the advice and consent of his Council , That the Persons which already are chosen , or shall be chosen before the first day of May 1654. to be Surveyors of the High-waies , ( which election is hereby enjoined to be made in every Place and Parish by the time aforesaid , under the penalties in that Ordinance expressed ) in case no election hath been already made , shall undertake the said Office , and be sworn on , or before , the sixth day of May aforesaid , under the penalties in the said Ordinance set down in that behalf , and shall be Surveyors for this present year , as if such election had been made on the said first Tuesday after the said five and twentieth day of March last , any thing in the said Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding ; And the said Surveyors so sworn , and all other persons authorized by the said Ordinance , shall be , and are hereby impowred , to proceed in , and put in execution all the Directions , Powers and Authorities in the said Ordinance contained , as fully , to all intents and purposes , as if the election had been made on the day therein appointed .

Wednesday April 12. 1654.

ORdered by his Highness the Lord Protector , and His Council , That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published .

HEN. SCOBELL , Clerk of the Council .