| Description | The Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, with handwritten annotations throughout and labelled as belonging to Henry Cross, Solicitor, Prescot. The Act covers: highway districts; main roads; bridges, extraordinary traffic; discontinuance of unnecessary highways; appointment of Surveyors in certain parishes; byelaws by county authority; saving for minerals; and amendments to Locomotive Acts, 1861 and 1865. Also includes two small newspaper cuttings of articles concerning cases taken before the courts relating to highways. |