Letter from Colonel Trevor (Lord Dynevor) to [?William Chambers], 13 July 1844 [page 1 of 4]

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"Llysnewydd,
13 July, 1844.

My dear Sir,

I have received your letter and the suggestions you have made with respect to the new Road Bill for S. Wales and will communicate them to Mr. Saunders Davies.

There is one amongst them, however, I think, we are not likely to adopt namely in respect to the election of the district Boards, as I cannot think it advisable to revert to the principle of a popular election in that matter.

The ratepayers are no wise interested excepting as Toll-payers, and they are prohibited by the power of the County board being restricted to the imposition of a maximum, as shewn in the Schedule, at the end of the Bill, and which if exercised even to its fullest extent is but a reasonable amount of Toll.

I think, and have before thought, it a good suggestion that the County Bridges should be brought under the same management, and will see what can be done in that respect. I hope we shall meet on Monday.

Believe me, very truly yours,
Geo. Rice Trevor."

[Source: George Eyre Evans, 'Rebecca Riots: Unpublished letters, 1843-44', The Transcations of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, vol. XXIII, p. 76]