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

XVI. If Receivers, Collectors, &c. at the Expiration of 11 Years, have Money in Hand, they are to account for and pay the same to Justices.

Penalty,; recovered by Distress.; Quarter Sessions may dispose of such Monies and Penalties.

Provided also, and bee it enacted That if it shall happen, that at the end and expiration of the terme of the Eleaven yeares aforesaid, that the Receivor or Receivors Collector or Collectors, then in being, or any of them, of the aforesaid Tolls, or any part thereof, in all and every of the said Countyes, made and to bee made, shall upon their or any of their accounts, made and to bee made, for the severall and respective Receipts of the Tolls aforesaid, have any suu[m]me or sumes of money in [X1 their or] any of their hands, more then they or any of them have expended as aforesaid, That then such Receivor and Receivors, Collector and Collectors, and every of them, shall bring in all and every suu[m]me and suu[m]mes of money so remaining in their or any of their hands, unto the Justices of the Peace of the said severall and respective Countyes, where such Receivor or Receivors, Collector or Collectors shall live, or have received the said severall suu[m]me or suu[m]mes, at the next Generall Quarter Sessions for the Peace, which shall happen to bee after their said severall Accounts, so to bee made as aforesaid, upon paine of forfeiting double the suu[m]me, which shall bee in their or any of their hands upon the said Account, which said suu[m]me and penalties shalbee recovered by distresse and sale of the parties Goods, so refusing to doe the same, by Warrant under the hands and seales of any two Justices of the Peace of the said severall Countyes, And that the said Justices of the Peace, at their said severall Quarter Sessions in their severall Countyes, are hereby impowered and enabled, to dispose of the said severall suu[m]me and suu[m]mes of money, and all the said Penalties, into the hands of such person and persons, and upon such Securityes as they shall approve of, to and for a Stocke for the repairing [X1 of ] the said severall Highwayes, according, to the intent and meaning of this Act, and not otherwise

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