Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

This was one such Act. It was passed because the road from Kinnegad to Athlone had grown "so ruinous and bad that in the winter-season so many parts thereof are impassable to carriages and dangerous to travellers". The Act provided for the collection of a toll of one shilling on certain vehicles travelling on the road and there do not appear to have been any riots or protests about that. People paid the toll if they wanted to travel.