Remarks on the Present System of Road Making / With Observations, Deduced from Practice and Experience, With a View to a Revision of the Existing Laws, and the Introduction of Improvement in the Method of Making, Repairing, and Preserving Roads, and Defending the Road Funds from Misapplication. Seventh Edition, Carefully Revised, With an Appendix, and Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, June 1823, with Extracts from the Evidence

by John Loudon McAdam

Appendix (D.)

Certificate and Recommendation by several Peers and Members of Parliament, to the Right Honourable the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury, respecting Mr. MᶜAdam’s Claim for remuneration.

It appears to the undersigned, by the report of a Committee of the House of Commons of last session, and by their own experience and observation, that the system of road making, introduced by Mr. MᶜAdam, has already been of great public benefit, as it facilitates the communications of the country, and affords useful and universal employment to the labouring class, with sufficient funds already provided.

The undersigned are of opinion, that as Mr. MᶜAdam obtained the information necessary to perfect his system of road making, entirely at his own expense, and with the labour of many years; and afterwards, by his exertions and those of his family, reduced the system to actual practice, and has now put the public in complete possession of his plans, Mr. MᶜAdam has a claim on the country for remuneration.

They are further of opinion, that it will be a great means of encouraging the general adoption of this improved system of road management, if Government shall be pleased to bestow this mark of their approbation on Mr. MᶜAdam.

Chichester, De Laware, Hardwicke, Macclesfield, Salisbury, Beaufort, G. Clerk, Wm. Rea, Thomas G. Estcourt, Wm. Dickinson, N. Calvert, W. H. Ashurst, J. Fane, J. N. Fazakerley, Carrington, G. Doveton, Dacre, Daniel Giles, Wm. Lamb, George Shee, W. Freemantle, Warren Bulkeley, Grenville, Folkestone, R. Spencer, R. M. Davis.