Meaning of waywarden | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone elected to take care of highways in a parish.

historical

Examples

“May present⟳ Constables and Way-Wardens if they appoint not six days for the repairing of Highways leading to Market Towns, […] shall upon the Justices Presentment be fined.”

“1737, J. H. Easterby (editor), Journal of the Commons House of Assembly of South Carolina Nov. 10, 1736-June 7, 1739, entry dated 5 March⟳, 1737, The Colonial Records of South Carolina, Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1951, p. 288, […] in each District one of the Commissioners or two, or two Way Wardens to be elected once a Year under Direction of said Commissioners be directed to assess each House keeper in said District for one Negro according to the Number⟳ they have⟳ in their Houses which may be either Male or Female, Boys or Girls above nine Years of Age once in three Months or as often as any Inhabitant shall make⟳ legal and regular Complaint that the streets are broken down […]”

“The vestries are composed of the custos, and two other magistrates; the rector and ten vestrymen; the latter are elected annually by the freeholders. Besides their power of assessing and appropriating taxes, they appoint way-wardens, and allot labourers for the repair⟳ of the public highways.”

“The roads of the parish are for the general use⟳ and benefit of everybody who lives in the parish; and all the persons who pay⟳ rents for houses in the parish, pay⟳ towards keeping up those roads. The waywarden, who is also called surveyor of the highways, wants money once or twice a year from the people of the parish, to pay⟳ for keeping up the roads.”

“There is nothing I have⟳ striven at more than doing my duty, way-warden over Exmoor.”

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