Book excerpt: Excerpt from Road Reform: A Lecture "on the Toll System of Town and County," Delivered at a Public Meeting Held in Craigie Hall, on the 23d January, 1872 In speaking, then, of the toll system of the town, I make a complete distinction between the market customs and dues, and the commutation duty, as the former are to a large extent fair and reasonable charges for a direct bene fit supplied, viz., market or sh0p accommodation provided by the city at great expense, and they are collected at a very small cost, while the commutation duty being essentially a toll, which can only be gathered at the out skirts of the city, is collected at an expense quite out of proportion to the amount it yields, and the annoyance it occasions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.