14. The whole Trustees elected by the several Board districts, as aforesaid, shall be a General Board of Road Trustees for the whole roads of the Province; and immediately after receiving the notices of the Elections of District Boards as aforesaid, the Superintendent shall call a meeting of the General Board of Road Trustees by a notice in the Gazette, and in the newspapers, four weeks at least before such meeting, and he shall specify the time and place where such meeting shall be held; and before the General Board proceeds to business there must be representatives present from a majority of the District Boards.

15. At the first meeting of said General Board, after every Election, they shall appoint one of their own number to be Chairman and Convener of the Board; and he shall preside at all meetings at which he is present, and shall conduct all correspondence with the Superintendent, the District Boards, and all other parties necessary.

16. It shall be the duty of the General Board of Road Trustees to fix and determine on all new lines of roads which they shall consider necessary to be formed for the public accommodation, and all extensions of old lines into new or extended districts during the year in which they hold office; and they shall obtain specifications and take estimates for the work necessary to be performed; and they shall have the responsibility of seeing that the work is executed according to the estimates. They may appoint Committees of their own number to carry their Resolutions into effect.

17. After the General Board of Trustees have prepared their specifications, they shall obtain or make up a probable estimate of the expense at which the work proposed to be executed may be completed; and the Convener shall send a copy of these documents to the Superintendent, who shall, after taking such advice and assistance as he shall think proper and necessary, either approve or disapprove of the work being done, or shall refer the determination of the matter to the Provincial Council, if it be then sitting, or shall propose such alterations on the proposals of the General Board of Trustees as he shall deem expedient; and whatever work is finally agreed upon by both the General Board of Trustees and the Superintendent as proper to be done, shall be executed by the General Board in conformity with the plan and specification mutually agreed upon.

18. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to cause an Assessment to be made on, and levied from the Proprietors of Land in the Province for defraying the expenses of surveying and laying down the Road lines, and of forming all new roads determined upon and agreed to by both the General Board and the Superintendent as aforesaid; such assessment to be levied in the manner after-mentioned.

19. All Public Roads shall be at least thirty feet broad; all new roads shall be formed by estimate, and a copy of the contract for forming these roads shall be transmitted by the Convener of the General Board to the Superintendent; and all payments to the contractors for the said roads shall be made by the Treasurer of the Province on warrant signed by both the Convener of the General Board and the Superintendent. No Road Trustees shall be a contractor for any work to be done on the roads, unless he resigns his office of Trustees previous to the specifications being given out for estimate.

20. All Assessments made for the purpose mentioned in section 18 hereof shall be made on the Proprietors of all lands within the districts appointed to elect Trustees, and shall be rated on them by the acre, and shall not be more in any one year than sixpence per acre; and the sum so assessed shall be levied either from the Proprietors of the Land or the Occupiers thereof, who shall have recourse on the Proprietor.

21. The District Road Trustees shall have the charge of all the roads formed within their respective districts, and they shall be bound to keep them in proper repair.

22. They shall in the month of August in each year make up an estimate of the expense of properly repairing, and keeping in repair, all the roads within their respective districts for the ensuing year, and shall deliver a copy of said estimate to the Superintendent, who shall forthwith, if necessary, appoint an Assessor or Assessors, and a Collector, or Collectors, and shall cause the estimate expense, with the expense of assessing and collecting the same, to be assessed in manner after-mentioned.

23. The Assessment for keeping the roads in repair shall be made on the Proprietors of Land, Occupiers of Land, Stock and Sheepowners, and Male Residents within the district, in manner following, viz.:—

Proprietors of Land shall be rated according to the number of acres belonging to them respectively.

Occupiers of Land, whether Proprietors or Tenants, shall be rated at half the number of acres they possess.

Stockowners shall be rated as having one acre of land for each three head of cattle above one year old which they possess.

Flockowners shall be rated as having one acre of land for every twenty sheep in their flock, not including lambs.

Every Male Resident in the district above twenty-one years of age, and not rated as Proprietor, or as an Occupier of Land, shall be rated as a possessor of five acres of land.

24. In all cases, both for forming the roads and keeping them in repair, the Proprietors of Lands wholly unoccupied shall be rated at double the number of acres belonging to them.

25. In order to save expense, the assessments shall be made in the following manner:—At the request of the Superintendent the Convener of the district shall call a meeting of the District Trustees, to be held on a day, at an hour, and at the place within the district to be fixed and named by the Superintendent, at which meeting the Assessor appointed by the Superintendent shall attend. Notice of this meeting shall also be given by the Convener of the District Road Trustees to the whole inhabitants of the district, both in the newspapers and otherwise, as to him shall appear necessary; and every person in the district shall be bound to attend this meeting, and give all necessary information to the Assessor, to enable him to make a just and proper assessment, which information he shall enter in a book, and the person giving the information shall subscribe the same. The Servants of Stock and Flock-owners not resident in the district shall be bound to attend and give the necessary information in behalf of their masters.

26. With regard to those parties who shall neither attend themselves, nor depute any other person to appear on their behalf, and give the necessary information at the said meeting, the Assessor shall assess according to such information as he can obtain, and there shall be afterwards no appeal from the assessment so made, unless it can be shown that the assessment was unjust.