History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . ent at Albany, the act was amendedand made to include the counties of Albany and Tryon. This amendmentpassed March 13,1780. At the fourth session March 20, 1781, it was againamended and remained in force until April, 1784, wdien it expired bylimitation. May 4, 1784, the legislature passed an act for the better laying out,regulating and keeping in repair, all common and public highways andprivate roads in the counties of Ulster, Orange, Dutchess, Washington,Westchester, Albany and Montgomeiy
History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . ent at Albany, the act was amendedand made to include the counties of Albany and Tryon. This amendmentpassed March 13,1780. At the fourth session March 20, 1781, it was againamended and remained in force until April, 1784, wdien it expired bylimitation. May 4, 1784, the legislature passed an act for the better laying out,regulating and keeping in repair, all common and public highways andprivate roads in the counties of Ulster, Orange, Dutchess, Washington,Westchester, Albany and Montgomeiy At this session (1784) Tryoncounty was changed in name to Montgomery, and Charlotte to Wash-ington. The preamble to this act is very significant and as true andappropriate now as then. It is a model for brevity and reads: Whereasthe keeping in good repair public roads and highways contributes greatlyto the ease and advantage of the inhabitants of a country. This act was a general revision of all former acts so far as they werepractically applicable, and an addition of what was necessary to meet the. THE HIGHWAYS. 87 public demand. It contained thirty three sections, which embody substantially the system on which onr highways are governed now. The subsequent amendments have been principally local. The frame work has notbeen materially changed. Peace had been declared, war had ceased, substantial permanence wasseen and felt in real estate and home, and good roads were as vital to com-mercial and financial prosperity, both public and private, as life itself. Thetime had come and the first public business after the war throughout thesettled rural domain, was road-making. Section four of this act provides that all public roads shall be ofbreadth not more than four rods nor less than two rods. April 20, 1787,this was amended that all public roads or highways hereafter to be laidout by virtue of the act hereby amended shall be four rods wide at section (1784) provides t
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