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CAP. VIII.

An ACT to regulate the manner of driving and riding upon the public Roads.

Passed 5th April, 1828.

Preamble.

 

 
WHEREAS great inconvenience and delay is experienced and often damage is sustained by the practice of driving and riding upon the public roads without any fixed or general rule for regulating the same:   And whereas it is believed that much good would arise to the public in establishing by law the mode of driving and riding upon the public roads:

Persons driving on the public roads and meeting others, to keep on the left hand.

 

Persons wishing to pass others going the same way to keep to the right.

 
I.   Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That all and every person and persons who shall drive any carriage, cart, waggon, dray, truck, sleigh or sled of any description, or ride upon any of the public roads, and who shall meet other persons driving or riding in the opposite direction, such person or persons so meeting others as aforesaid shall keep to the left hand side of the road, leaving those whom they may so meet on the right; and if any person so driving or riding upon the public roads shall have occasion to pass any other person who may be driving or riding in the same direction, then such persons so wishing to pass shall keep to the right of those whom they may wish to pass, leaving them on the left.

Part of Sec. 3 of 52 G. 3, C. 18, repealed.

 

 

 
II.   And be it further enacted, That all that part of the third Section of an Act made and passed in the fity second year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act in amendment of an Act made and passed in the forty fifth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled, 'An Act to regulate the winter roads in the Counties of York and Sunbury,'" which requires persons travelling on the winter roads therein mentioned to leave the row of bushes placed on the said roads always on the left hand, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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C. 8. Anno IX. Geo. IV.   A. D. 1828.


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