Road Repair (Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire) Act 1663

VI. Surveyors to account to Quarter Sessions.

Collectors to pay Monies remaining in Hand to Surveyors, &c.; Justices to make Allowance to Surveyors.; Collector not duly paying to Surveyor, &c.; or Surveyors not accounting or paying; Quarter Sessions may proceed; and may imprison until Account rendered.

And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Surveyors and every of them, in their severall and respective Countyes, at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for the said County, to bee holden next after Easter [X1 in] every yeare, shall make and yeild up, unto the Justices of the Peace, there to bee assembled a perfect Accompt in writeing, under their hands, of all the money which they or any of them, shall have received from the said Collector, or Receivor of Toll, in their said County, and likewise of all their disbursements, in and about the said Highway or otherwise, by reason of their Offices, And in case of any overplus of money soe received, remaining in their hands, shall pay the same to the Surveyors to bee chosen for the yeare ensueing, or to the Treasurer or Receivor, by them to bee appointed, to bee disbursed and laid out in the severall places aforesaid, within such County, wherein the overplus doth remaine, and not elsewhere in the yeare ensueing, which said Justices to whom such Account shall bee given, shall out of the benefitt of the [X1 said] Toll, make such allowance unto the said Surveyors, for and in consideration of their care and paines, taken in the execution of their said Offices, as to them shall seeme good, And in case the Collector or Receivor of the aforesaid Toll, for the respective Countyes, soe to bee paid as aforesaid, shall not upon request duely pay the same unto the said Surveyors of the said County for the time being or the Treasurer or Receivor by them appointed, or in case the said Surveyors, or any of them, shall not make such Account and payment as aforesaid, that then the said Justices, for the severall and respective Countyes, at any Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to bee holden for the said County, in case of such default of Account or Payment, shall and may make enquiry concerning such default, aswell by the confession of the partyes themselves, as by testimony of two or more credible Witnesses upon Oath, and in case of such default, to bee found and adjudged by the said Justices, in their said respective Countyes, either in their said Receivor or Collector of the said Toll, or in their said Surveyors, or any of them, the said Justices, upon such their conviction, shall coo[m]mitt the party or partyes, soe convict to the coo[m]mon Goale for the said County, there to remaine without Bayle or Maineprize, untill hee or they shall have made a true and perfect account and payment as aforesaid

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