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 (K.)

Letter of Postmaster General to the Lords of the Treasury, on Petition of Mr. MᶜAdam for payment of Balance due to him on account of services stated to have been rendered by him in the improvement of the Public Roads.

My Lords,

Mr. John Loudon MᶜAdam having addressed to us a memorial, relative to certain claims on account of the services which he states to have been rendered by him in the improvement of the public Roads of the kingdom, we have the honour to transmit the same to your lordships for such consideration as it may appear to you to deserve; and we have to state, that the favourable opinions which we entertained and expressed in our former reports upon this subject, have been confirmed by experience; and that by employing Mr. MᶜAdam to survey the roads in Lancashire, the most beneficial results are likely to follow.

We are, my Lords, with great respect,

Your Lordships most obedient servants,

Chichester.

Salisbury.

General Post-office,

6th Feb. 1823.

H. Bryer, Printer, Bridge-street, Blackfriars.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
2. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.