§ SIR GEORGE JENKINSONasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether the attention of the Government has been directed to the Report, in May last, of the Select Committee of this House on the Turnpike Acts Continuance, in which the following sentence occurs:—
Your Committee must repeat their conviction that, unless some law is speedily enacted for the better management of highways, great injustice will he done to many parishes in consequence of the liability thrown on them of repairing roads which were constructed for the purpose of through traffic. Many roads will undoubtedly fall out of repair, and through want of timely legislation, much expense, which might have been avoided, will eventually be incurred in restoring the condition of these roads;this being a repetition of language equally strong in the previous Reports of May, 1875 and 1876; and, whether the Government intend to introduce, and to endeavour to pass during this Session, any measure to remedy the evils described in the Report referred to?
§ MR. SCLATER BOOTH, in reply, said, his attention had been directed to the recommendation referred to. He had brought the subject under the notice of the Government more than once, and they were anxious to legislate with respect to it, but they were not, as he had stated on a recent occasion, able to see their way to introduce a Bill dealing with it this Session.