§ SIR HERBERT CROFTsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether a county is bound to take to the repairs of bridges on lines of roads which have now ceased, by the expiration of their several Acts, to be Turnpike Roads?
§ MR. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSENsaid, in reply, that it was not the custom or the duty of the Home Office to give opinions upon disputed points of law, but he would readily give the hon. Baronet that which he believed to be the correct view—namely, that if a bridge on any line of road which had ceased to 1887 belong to a turnpike trust had been heretofore repaired by the county in which it was situated, the same liability would continue to attach to it. With respect to the abolition of turnpike trusts, generally, the liabilities which had attached to such trusts, passed, on their cessation, to the local authorities of the district, and the case of bridges repaired by such trusts would probably come within the same category.