There were no broad, smooth highways as there are now.
In many boroughs similar acts had been obtained conferring various powers relating to sanitary matters, streets and highways and the like.
He would want to know, yet if he did, he might try to drive in on icy highways.
One of the consequences of the act was the abolition of tolls, statutelabour, causeway mail and other exactions for the maintenance of bridges and highways, and all turnpike roads became highways, and all highways became open to the public free of tolls and other exactions.
In an urban district the urban council have always had all the powers and duties of a surveyor of highways under the Highway highways Acts.