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

X. Fines paid to Surveyors for repairing the Roads.

Surveyors dying, &c.; Two or more Justices may appoint others.; Such Persons refusing to act; Penalty.

And bee it further enacted by Authority aforesaid That all Fines or Forfeitures, to bee imposed or incurred by virtue of this Act, shall bee paid to the Surveyors for the time being, or any three of them, or the Treasurers of the said Surveyors for the said respective Countyes, for and towards the repairing of the said Highwayes and places aforesaid And in case of refusall, or if any person or persons soe chosen to take upon him or them the said Office, shall happen to dye, or shall for any lawfull impediment bee discharged from the said Office, that then some other fitt person or persons within that County, shall bee appointed by two or more Justices in the said County, living neere the said Highway and places aforesaid, in the place of him or them, that shall soe refuse, dye or bee discharged, and the person or persons soe chosen, shall, and are hereby required upon notice thereof to him or them given, under the hands and seales of the said Justices, by whom hee or they shall bee so chosen, to take upon him or them the said Office of Surveyor, and to execute the same in such manner and under such and the like penalties, as if hee or they had been chosen by the Justices at their Sessions of the Peace, in manner as aforesaid.