Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Duties Act 1698

III. Twelve Commissioners appointed to inspect the Accounts of Receipt and Disbursement of the said Duties.

The said Commissioners may summon Collectors, &c; Collectors to account to them; Commissioners may order the Expenditure of Money appearing due upon the Accounts.; Collectors to be sworn; Allowance to Collectors, &c.

And to the Intent that all and every the Sum and Sums of Money which shall be collected and levied by; virtue of this Act may be imployed for or towards the repaireing the said Havens and Piers and depthning the Chanell aforesaid Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be Twelve Commissioners appointed and nominated to have the Inspection and to take account of the Receipts and Disbursements of all such Money as shall be soe collected and levied during the Terme aforesaid Three of which shall be yearely and every yeare from time to time nominated and appointed by the said Bayliffs Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty of the said Borough in Common Councill assembled and other Three of the said Twelve Commissioners to be in the like manner nominated and appointed by the Mayor Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Norwich in Common Councill assembled and other Three of the said Twelve Commissioners to be in like manner nominated and appointed by the Justices of the Peace for the said County of Norfolke and other Three of them to be in like manner nominated and appointed by the Justices of the Peace for the County of Suffolke at the respective Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties of Norfolke and Suffolke respectively which said Commissioners or any Number of them Five being of the Counties of Norfolke Suffolke and City of Norwich shall and may from time to time during the said Terme call before them the Collectors Receivers or others who shall be intrusted with the Collection Receipt or Imployment of the Monies to be collected and received in pursuance of this Act who shall and are by virtue of this Act required to render unto the said Commissioners or any Number of them Five being of the Counties of Norfolke Suffolke and City of Norwich a true Account thereof and of all and every Sum and Sums of Money which shall rest due upon such Account And the said Commissioners or any Number of them Five being of the Counties of Norfolke Suffolke and City of Norwich shall and may order and appoint all such Moneys which shall rest due upon such Account to be laid out and expended for and towards the Uses and Purposes aforesaid as there shall be cause And the Bayliffs of the said Borough for the time being or one of them are hereby enabled and required to administer an Oath to every such Collector or Collectors Receiver or Receivers as shall be nominated and chosen as aforesaid for the true and faithfull executing his or their Office in and about the Premisses according to the true intent and meaning of this present Act Provided that the said Collector or Collectors Receiver and Receivers to be nominated and chosen as aforesaid and every of them shall from time to time be allowed for their Paines in executing the said Office out of the Sums of Money by them received soe much as the said Bayliffs Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty in Common Councill assembled shall think fitt not exceeding Six Pence in the Pound