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Gentleman's Magazine 1819 part 2 p.324

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Oct. 16.
Mr. URBAN,
I SHOULD hope the following cursory hints are not altogether unworthy of the notice of your readers.
Travellers can observe a great difference as to the degree of attention paid by the Magistrates and Road-surveyors to the following clause in the Highway Act, 13 Geo. III. c.78, s.26.
"The Justices at the Special Sessions shall issue their precept to the Surveyor, where several highways meet, and there is no sufficient direction-post or stone already fixed or erected; requiring him forthwith to cause to be erected or fixed, in the most convenient place where such ways meet, a stone or post, with inscriptions thereon, in large legible letters painted on each side thereof, containing the name or names of the next market-town or towns, or other considerable place or places to which the said highways lead, &c."
The information to be derived from hand-posts is so apparent, that it seems strange they are so much neglected!
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