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A P P E N D I X TO THZ PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE C OUNTY C 0U1N'CII, OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX. PETITION OF THOMAS VOLLANS AND OTHERS, To the Corporation of the County of Essex, in Couwil Assembled. The Petition of the undersigned proprietors of land on each side of the Town line between Colchester to the South, and Maidstone and Sand_ wich East to the North, respectfully sheveth. That your Petitioners have heard with much satisfaction that your Honorable Body have at length'determiued to meet the requirements of justice, by devoting a portion of the County funds of each year, to the opening up and improvement of the County Roads. That the greater portion of the lots on the Colchester aide of the Town line have been patented Eince 1836. [25 years ago.] That assuming the Statute Labour assessed against each lot to bate averaged only two days per annum during that time, and the commutatioe thereof to have been at the rate of $0,50, per day, there would now lave been collected from the Colchester side alone, $425, worth of Statute Labour, and assuming an equal proportion from the Maidstone and Sand. wick side, —the amount of $850, -- contributed frsm the proprietors on both aides, would, if it had been devoted to that purpose, have opened up and partly ditched the Town line from the Anderdon and Sandwich junction to the South boundary of Lot No. 286, on the 'Talbot Road Nest, or to the point of intersection of the said Town line with the said Talbot Road, west, on Lot No. 284 between Maidstone and Colchester, Notwithstan,ing this, )our Petitioners bare never derived one far. thing's worth of benefit from the taxation assessed against thrir lands since