Milestone

Milestone. The trustees of turnpike roads were, very early in the history of such roads (see 3 Geo. 4, c. 26, s. 119), under an obligation to set up and maintain milestones, but no such legal obligation is expressly imposed upon the managers of public highways, although the Highway Rate, etc., Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 27), repealed, except as to London and Scilly, by the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 90); by s. 6 constituted 'the expenses incurred by a highway authority in maintaining, replacing, or setting up milestones on any highway' a 'lawful charge upon the highway rate.' Milestones are included among road improvements for purposes of the (English) Development and Roads Improvement Funds Act, 1909, by the Roads Improvement Act, 1925, s. 2.