Account of monies expended by the Central Board of Road Commissioners [appointed in 1836] since the furnishing their last account in June 1837.

{my short forms....pd = paid, @ = at, curr. = currency, amt.= amount, £ = Pound, s = sterling, d = pence, Anything in these { } are my own comments. - Ann (may be contacted through the contributor's page)

Cash pd Phillip Stamp & Richard Roach, viz. for opening 272 perches of road, near Bay Bulls Long Pond @ £15/10s per mile. amt. £13/3/6. Also... Widening [from 12 to 24] 4 miles &30 perches of road from the Goulds River towards Bay Bulls @ £13 per mile as per account. amt. £55/8/8

Cash pd, James Cuddihy, viz for 3 large bridges, say 1 over Goulds River, and 2 over streams near above. amt. £ 128/0/0. Allowance for additional work. amt. £4/00 Building 9 smaller bridges @ 55 s. amt. £24/15/0 Filling up a brook. amt. £2/15/0 Draining 33 perches of road, of 7 ft. wide, & 2½ ft. wide, @ 7s. 6d amt. £12/7/6. Draining 68 perches of road, 4 ft. wide amt. £ 14/12/6. Removing all combustible materials from 50 ft. of any part of the 3 large bridges amt. £20/0/0.

Deduct £60 paid Cuddihy, and charged by the commissioners in their last account, & also the sum of £5 stop to remedy a defect in the King Post of the Goulds River Bridge. amt. £63/00

Cash pd. Michael Darsey, viz for widening [from 12 to 24 ft] 3¾ miles of the Bay Bulls road from Sweeny's Marsh to the Goulds River, @£14 per mile, amt. £ 54/7/6. Allowance for clearing the first part opened of wind - falls, amt. £2/0/0

Cash pd. Edward Gorman, viz for draining 171 perches of road from Sweeny's Marsh towards the Gold River @ 2s, 3d per perch. amt. £19/4/9

Cash pd. James Toole & M. Reilley, viz. for opening 1¾ miles of road next the Bay Bulls, 24 ft. wide, @ £31 per mile. amt. £ 54/5/0

Cash pd. William Sinnott, viz., for carrying off a bog from the road, and for draining 112 perches {can't read the rest} amt. £15/0/0

Cash pd. Martin Williams, viz., for building 13 bridges &clearing the stream @ 5 £. amt. £65/0/0

Cash pd. to Roger Flahaven & John Savage for opening 7 miles & 184 perches of road, 12 ft. wide @ £15 per mile. amt. £129/6/1

Cash pd. John Ennis &Pat, Rielly, viz., for draining 342 perches road between the end of Gorman's work & the 1^st bridge @ 1 s, 10d per perch, amt. £ 31/7/0

Cash pd. John Savage & Richard Roach, viz., for building 8 temporary bridges @ 5s each. amt. £2/0/0

Cash pd. Phillip Stamp, viz., for examining &measuring work on Bay Bulls road, amt. £4/13/0

Cash pd. Richard Gladney, viz., for opening roads, building bridges, draining &c. {?}, amt. £103/6/4

Cash pd. J.A. Wheeler, viz., for 15 cross drains 10s each, draining 35 perches @ 3s, amt. £12/15/0, less 55s deducted for bad work, amt. £2/15/0

Cash pd. Bryan O'Brien, balance due him for bridges built on the road from Holyrood to Kellygrews as per account. amt. £27/5/6

Cash pd. N. Rourke & R. Gladney, for draining, covering cross drains, & opening 7 perches road, amt. £19/10/3

Pd. R. Walsh for keeping the road from Emanuel's River to the Butter Pots clear of windfalls, amt. £2/10/0

Pd. John Roach, viz., 30 covered cross drains, 11s each, built on the road between Topsail & Kellygrews, amt. £16/10/0

Pd. John Rendall for notice boards put on road. amt. 10/6

Pd. M. Rielley & W. Walsh for keeping the Topsail road clear of windfalls in the winter of '36 &'37. amt. £2/0/0

Pd. George Winter for quick Match. amt. £1/6/4

C.F. Bennett as per account for powder, canvas, tar &c. amt. £15/10/1

Robert Dunn{?}, 47 lbs powder @ 10d. amt. £1/18/4

N. Kennedy, gratuity for 3 yrs sevice in superintending the work, preparing tubes, bags &c. amt. £20/0/0

Cash pd. 4 men, 63 dys work each @ 4s 4d, assissting Mr. Byrne, surveyor, to explore, examine and mark a line of road from Holyrood to Salamonier & thence to St. Mary's. amt. £56/14/0

Pd. Phillip Stamp, assisstant surveyor, 13 dys @ 5s. amt. £3/5/0

George Cooke for making a roadway to Boden's Cove by Maggotty Cove. amt. £15/0/0

Pd. Patrick Whelan, shoring the railway @ Kings Bridge. amt. £1/0/0

Pd James Grey, for building an additional wall at the stone bridge, Maggotty Cove. amt. £3/4/6

Phillip Stamp superintending road work on various roads, measuring the same, etc. 23 dys as per acct. amt. £6/9/0

Thomas Ryrne, 7mths salary as superintending surveyor, to 31^st Dec. 1837, @ £100 per annum. amt. £67/6/1

Pd. C.P. Bennett, for 1 gal. tar, for work @ Quiddy Viddy, see his account. amt. 2/0

N. Kennedy & 2 men, 1 dys work each, @ Quiddy Viddy, removing fragments of rock from channel. amt. 17/0

Pd. C.P. Bennett, for bunting, canvas, etc, used by surveyor in laying out roads as per account. amt. £1/18/8