Roads (CAP. 384 1

CHAPTER 384

THE ROADS ACT

Arrangement of Sections
Section

1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3 . Lateral ditches of roads to be maintained by owners of

estates and lands adjacent thereto.
4. Owners of estates and lands to be remunerated for work

done under section 3 .
5 . Power of Cabinet to alter Schedules.
6. Service of notice under Section 3 (2).
7. Prosecutions, &c., to be instituted in the name of the

Surveyor.
8. Application of expenses recovered.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
SECOND SCHEDULE.

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either in addition to or in lieu of any punishment other than
imprisonment, which may be inflicted upon any such
offenders by the common law.

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Unlawful
assembly after

4. If any persons to the number of twelve or more,
proclamation. being unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled

together to the disturbance of the public peace and being
required or commanded by any District Magistrate, or by
any Justice of the Peace, by proclamation to be made in
the Queen's name in the form hereinafter directed, to disperse
themselves and peaceably to depart to their habitations or
to their lawful business, shall to the number of twelve or
more, notwithstanding such proclamation made, unlawfully,
riotously and tumultuously remain or continue together for
the space of one hour or more after such request or com-
mand made by proclamation, then all and singular the
persons so remaining or continuing together to the number
of twelve or more after such request or command made by
proclamation shall be guilty of felony and, being convicted
thereof, shall be liable to be imprisoned, with or without
hard labour, for any term not exceeding five years.

Form and order 5 . The order and form of the proclamation that shall
of proclamation.

be made by the authority of this Act shall be as follows, that
is to say, the Magistrate or Justice of the Peace authorized
by this Act to make proclamation shall, among the rioters
or as near to them as he can safely come, with a loud voice
command or cause to be commanded silence to be, while
proclamation is making, and after that shall openly and with
a loud voice make or cause to be made proclamation in these
words, or like in effect:

"Our Sovereign Lady the Queen charges and com-
mands all persons, being assembled, immediately to
disperse themselves and peaceably to depart to their
habitations or to their lawful business upon the pains
contained in the Riot Act. God save the Queen":

and every District Magistrate and.every Justice of the Peace
as aforesaid are hereby authorized, empowered and required,
on notice or knowledge of any such unlawful, riotous and
tumultuous assembly, to repair to the place where such
unlawful, riotous and tumultuous assembly shall be, of
persons to the number of twelve or more, and there to make
or cause to be made proclamation in manner aforesaid.

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ROADS

1. This Act may be cited as the Roads Act. Short title.

2. In this Act- Interpretation.

" owner" means the owner, lessee or occupier of any
estate or land, and the receiver, attorney, agent,
manager, guardian or committee of any such
owner, lessee or occupit;, and includes any other
person in charge or having control or possession
of any estate or land in right of the owner, or having
the possession in his or her own right or in that
of his wife or as guardian of any other person, of
any such estate or land;

"Surveyor" means the Surveyor appointed under the
provisions of the Public Works and Road Act. Cap. 360.

3. (1) Where any ditch or drain runs along the side Lateral ditches of
roads to be

of any road mentioned in the First Schedule (whether such maintained by
ditch or drain is in existence before, or is dug or made after, of estates

and lands
the commencement of this Act), the owner of the estate or adjacent thereto.
land which adioins that side of the road shall k e e ~ such ditch
or drain, or that part thereof which is adiacent to such estate
or land, open, dug out, and free from silt, roots, weeds and
rubbish, and otherwise in such a condition as to allow of
the free passage of water:

Provided that the obligation imposed by this subsection
shall not extend to any ditch or drain or such part thereof
as may be within the city of Saint John's or within any village
mentioned in the Second Schedule.

(2) Where any such owner fails to comply with any of
the provisions of the preceding subsection the Surveyor may
cause a notice to be served on him, requiring him to comply
with such provisions within a time to be specified in such
notice, and, in the event of such owner failing to comply

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with the requirements of such notice within such time, such
owner shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars, and the Surveyor may do the work required, and
any kxpenses incurred by him in so doing shall be deemed
to be a civil debt recoverable summarily from such owner.

Owners of estates
and lands to be

4. The Cabinet shall cause to be paid from the general
remunerated for revenue to owners of estates and lands in respect of work
work done under done under the provisions of section 3 remuneration at such
section 3.

general or special rates as the Cabinet may from time to
time determine.

Power of Cabinet
to alter

5 . The Cabinet may by an Order published in the
Schedules. Gazette alter either of the Schedules by adding to or removing

from such Schedule any road or part of a road in the case
of the First Schedule, or any village in the case of the Second
Schedule.

Service of notice
under

6. (1) The notice mentioned in subsection (2) of sec-
section 3 (2). tion 3 may be served by post, and if served by post shall

be deemed to have been served at the time when it would
be delivered in the ordinary course of post, and in proving
such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the notice was
properly addressed and put into the post.

(2) Any such notice may be addressed by the descrip-
tion of the "owner'' of the estate or land (naming it) in respect
of which the notice is given, without any further name or
description.

Prosecutions,
&c., to be

7. Every prosecution in respect of an alleged offence
instituted in the under subsection (2) of section 3, and every proceeding for
name the the recovery of any expenses incurred by the Surveyor under
Surveyor.

the said subsection shall be instituted in the name of the
Director of Public Works.

Application of
expenses

8 . All expenses incurred by the Surveyor under
recovered. subsection (2) of section 3 which may be recovered by him

shall be paid into and form part of the general revenue.

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No.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Road

St. John's to All Saints (English Harbour Road).
St. John's to Old Road, via Bolans and Johnson Point.
St. John's to Galley Bay, via Grays Farm (Five Islands Road).
Herberts to Tyrells, via Buckleys.
Tyrells (road No. 39) to Belvedere (road No. 6), via Shirley

Ghaut, Sweets and Body Ponds.
Drews Hill (road No. 1) to Old Road, via Bendals and

Wallings.
Bendals to Creekside, via Greencastle.
From road No. 3 to Green Bay.
From road No. 2 to Cedar Hall School.
From road No. 2 to Grays Hill.
From Bolans Bridge (road No. 2) to Roses.
Belle Vue (road No. 1) to Pims Pond (road No. 31), via

Freemanville and Sandersons.
Herberts (road No. 1) to Sea View Farm.
All Saints to Vernons, via Jonas and Upper Freemans (road

No. 20).
St. John's to Wetherills.
Fort James to junction with road No. 15.
Wetherills to Thibous, via St. James' Church.
St. John's to junction with road No. 17, via Friars Hill and

Langfords.
St. John's to Parham, via Clare Hall and Fitches Creek.
St. John's to Vernons (Church Pond), via The Factory and

North Sound Bridge.
Parham to Vernons (Church Pond).
Thibous to junction with road No. 19, via Judges.
Millars to junction with road No. 22, via Carlisles.
Judges to Winthropes, via High Point.
Winthropes to junction with road No. 19, via St. George's

Church.
Dunbars to junction with road No. 22, via Cedar Valley.
North Sound Bridge to Weirs.
Scotts Hill to Clare Hall Village.
Potters Village to road No. 20.
Carnacho Avenue and Victoria Park.
Vernons (Church Pond) to Potwork Bridge, via Parrys and

Little Duers.
Potwork Bridge to Montpelier, via Marks Hill and Newfield.
Top of Sam Harmans Hill to Freetown, via Colebrooks.
Road No. 31 to Willikies, via Pares and Carrs Ghaut.
Seatons to junction with road No. 34.
All Saints to Yeamans.

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37 Liberta to Little Duers, uia Bodkins and Delaps.
38 Road No. 36 to road No. 37, via Burkes and Laroches.
39 All Saints to English Harbour.
40 Falmouth to junction with road No. 37, via Piccadilly and

' Bethesda.
41 Montpelier to junction with road No. 37, uia St. Philip's

Church.
42 Road No. 32 to road No. 34, via Collins and Long Lane.
43 Road No. 32 to road No. 41, via Lyons.
44 Road No. 32 to road No. 41, via Lavingtons.
45 Road No. 6 to road No. 5, via Mill Hill and Folly.
46 Comfort Hall (road No. 34) to Elmes (road No. 32), uia

Wickhams and the Savannah.
47 Parham to Betty's Hope (road No. 34), via Crabbs, Cotton,

Hawes and Mercers Creek.

Cedar Grove.
Grays Hill.
Potters.
Buckleys.
All Saints.
Galley Bay.
Grays Farm.
Pigotts.
Osborne.
Parham.
Freemanville.
Pares.
Sea View Farm.
Date Hill.
Winthropes.
Barnes Hill.
Seatons.
Newfield.
Freetown.
Bethesda.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Christian Hill.
Falmouth.
English Harbour.
Willikies.
Syne.
Liberta.
John Hughes.
Old Road.
Sweets.
Bendals.
Brecknocks.
Hamiltons.
Jennings.
Bolans.
Dunnings.
Ebenezer.
Roses.
Crab Hill.
Johnson Point.