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They are further of opinion, that it will be a great means of encouraging the general adoption of this improved system of road management, if Government shall be pleased to bestow this mark of their approbation on Mr. MᶜAdam.

Chichester, De Laware, Hardwicke, Macclesfield, Salisbury, Beaufort,
G. Clerk, Wm. Rea, Thomas G. Estcourt, Wm. Dickinson, N. Calvert, W.
H. Ashurst, J. Fane, J. N. Fazakerley, Carrington, G. Doveton,
Dacre, Daniel Giles, Wm. Lamb, George Shee, W. Freemantle, Warren
Bulkeley, Grenville, Folkestone, R. Spencer, R. M. Davis.

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. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.