If the Commissioners or Trustees of any Turnpike Road, or the Surveyor of any Highway, apprehend Danger to the Passengers on such Road in consequence of Horses being frightened by the Sight of the Engines or Carriages travelling upon the Railway, it shall be lawful for such Commissioners or Trustees or Surveyor, after giving Fourteen Days Notice to the Company, to apply to the Board of Trade with respect thereto; and if it shall appear to the said Board that such Danger might be obviated or lessened by the Construction of any Works in the Nature of a Screen near to or adjoining the Side of such Road, it shall be lawful for them, if they shall think fit, to certify the Works necessary or proper to be executed by the Company for the Purpose of obviating or lessening such Danger, and by such Certificate to require the Company to execute such Works within a certain Time after the Service of such Certificate, to be appointed by the said Board.

Where by any such Certificate as aforesaid the Company shall have been required to execute any such Work in the Nature of a Screen they shall execute and complete the same within the Period appointed for that Purpose in such Certificate, and if they fail so to do they shall forfeit to the Commissioners or Trustees or Surveyor Five Pounds for every Day during which such Works shall remain uncompleted beyond the Period so appointed for their Completion ; and it shall be lawful for the Justices by whom any such Penalty is imposed to order the whole or any Part thereof to be laid out in executing the Work in respect whereof such Penalty was incurred.