Highways Act 1662

XII. Surveyors to account.

Method of Account; and to pay Balance to Successor.; Not accounting;; Imprisonment in Common Goal.

And be it further enacted by the [X1 Authoroty] aforesaid That every person soe elected and taking upon him or them the Office of Surveyor or Surveyors as aforesaid shall within One Moneth next after the expiration of the yeare wherein [X2 he] executed the said Office as Surveyor of the High wayes make and yeild up to the Inhabitants of the Parish Town Village or Hamlet at some publick Meeting to bee appointed by the said Inhabitants a perfect. Accompt in Writing under his and theire Hands of all the Moneys he or they received or paid within his or theire yeare for or by reason of his or theire Office namely of whom and what received and to whom and what paid and what Moneys are in arreare and unpaid either for Assessments Fines Forfeitures Penalties and charitable Gifts and if any Overplus be in his or theire Hands he or they shall returne and pay the same to the next Surveyors or one of them for the use of the Parish Town Village or Hamlett to bee disbursed in and about the High wayes in the following yeare And if the said Surveyor or Surveyors shall not make such an Account and Payment as before any two Justices of the Peace living neere to or in the said Parish shall and may upon complaint unto them made examine the busines upon Oath and upon default found in the Surveyor or Surveyors shall and may commit him or them to the Common Goal of that County City Riding Town Corporate Liberty or Limit there to remaine until he hath made a true and perfect Account and Payment as aforesaid

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Authority O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 interlined on the Roll.