§ MR. DUNDASasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether the Local Government Board is in possession of any statistics which enable him to state the average cost per mile of the maintenance of parish highways not included in highway districts, further or more accurately than it is stated in the Fourth Report of the Local Government Board, page 254; and, whether any instance has come under the notice of the Local Government Board in which a county which has adopted the Highway Acts, 1862 and 1866, has afterwards reverted to the old system?
§ MR. DODSONSir, at present the Board have not any complete statistics showing the average cost per mile of the parish highways not in highway districts. The Highway Returns, however, for the past year, which are now in course of preparation for presentation, will, for the first time, not only show the cost of maintenance, but the mileage of these roads in each parish, and thus indicate the information required. With respect to the second Question I may say that two cases have come under the notice of the Board, in which counties, after adopting the Highway Acts of 1862 and 1864, have afterwards reverted to the old system—namely, Stafford and Norfolk; but the adoption, in each instance, had extended only to a single district.