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The Road and the Roadside - Burton Willis Potter
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Title: The Road and the Roadside
Author: Burton Willis Potter
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THE ROAD
AND
THE ROADSIDE.
By
BURTON WILLIS POTTER.
BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1886.
Copyright, 1886,
By Burton Willis Potter.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
TO
THE HONORABLE JOHN E. RUSSELL,
SECRETARY OF
THE MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF AGRICULTURE,
These Pages are Respectfully Inscribed,
AS A TOKEN OF MY LOVE AND ESTEEM FOR HIM AS A TRUE FRIEND,
A CLASSICAL SCHOLAR, AND AN ELOQUENT ORATOR,
WHOSE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS HAVE AIDED POWERFULLY
IN BRINGING ABOUT A REVIVAL OF AGRICULTURE,
AND IN CREATING AMONG THE PEOPLE
A LOVE OF AGRICULTURE AND
RURAL LIFE.
Transcriber's Note: The asterisks in footnotes 89 and 92 have do not have corresponding references in the text.
PREFACE.
The chapters of this book relating to the laws of public and private ways were written and read as a lecture at the Country Meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, in December, 1885, at Framingham, and have since been published in the Report on the Agriculture of Massachusetts for the Year 1885.
The laws as herein stated are, as I believe, the present laws of Massachusetts relative to public and private ways, and therefore they may not all be applicable to the ways in other States; but inasmuch as the common law is the basis of the road law in all the States, it will be found that the general principles herein laid down are as applicable in one State as in another.
Believing that good roads and the love of rural life are essential to the true happiness and lasting prosperity of any people, these pages have been written with the sincere desire to do something to improve our roads and to encourage country life; and they are now given to the public with the hope that they will exert some little influence in promoting these objects.
B. W. P.
Worcester, Mass.,
May, 1886.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
HISTORY, IMPORTANCE, AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ROADS.
CHAPTER II.
LOCATION.
CHAPTER III.
CONSTRUCTION.
CHAPTER IV.
REPAIRS.
CHAPTER V.
LAWS RELATING TO THE LAYING OUT OF WAYS.
CHAPTER VI.
LAW AS TO REPAIRS.
CHAPTER VII.
GUIDE-POSTS, DRINKING-TROUGHS, AND FOUNTAINS.
CHAPTER VIII.
SHADE TREES, PARKS, AND COMMONS.
CHAPTER IX.
PUBLIC USE OF HIGHWAYS.
CHAPTER X.
THE LAW OF THE ROAD.
CHAPTER XI.
EQUESTRIANS AND PEDESTRIANS.
CHAPTER XII.
OMNIBUSES, STAGES, AND HORSE-CARS.
CHAPTER XIII.
PURPOSES FOR WHICH HIGHWAYS MAY BE USED.
CHAPTER XIV.
USE OF HIGHWAYS BY ADJOINING OWNERS.
CHAPTER XV.
PRIVATE WAYS.
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