Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Duties Act 1698

VII. Corporation may put in and displace Collectors and other Officers; and direct Payment of Monies for Materials, Wages of Workmen, &c.; and inspect Accounts and summon Collectors, &c.;

Collectors to account to Corporation, and in default Bailiffs may distrain, &c; If no Distress, Imprisonment; Corporation answerable for Monies collected by Collectors nominated by them.

And be it further enacted That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Bayliffs Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty in Common Councill assembled from time to time and as often as they shall thinke fitt to putt in place displace or remove any Collector Receiver Officer Overseer Workman or Labourer that now is or hereafter shall be imployed in any Worke or Imployment in or about the said Haven Piers or Channell and from time to time to dispose of order and direct Payment of such Sum and Sums of Money ariseing by this Act for Materialls Workmens Wages or otherwise for maintaining repairing and preserving the said Haven and Piers or depthning the said Channell as occasion shall require And alsoe to inspect and take Accounts of the Collections Receipts and Disbursements of all such Monies as shall be collected and levied by virtue of this Act And to call before them the Collectors Receivers and others who shall be intrusted with the Collection Receipt or any Imployment of the Monies to be collected and received by this Act who are hereby required to render to them or to such as they shall direct to inspect or take such Accounts a true Account thereof And in case they or any of them shall be found in Arreare or refuse to account that then it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Bayliffs or One of them by Warrant under their or One of their Hands and Seales to levy by Distresse and Sale of the Goods and Chattells of such Person or Persons soe refuseing to account and who shall be charged with Monies in his or their Hands or in Arreares as aforesaid such Sum and Sums of Money as he or they shall be soe charged with rendring the Overplus and for want of such Distresse by like Warrant under Hand and Seale of both or one of the said Bayliffs to committ such Person or Persons to the common Goale of the Borough of Great Yarmouth aforesaid untill such time as he or they shall account and pay or secure to be paid such Sum or Sums of Money as he or they shall be respectively charged with And that the said Bayliffs Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty shall answer and make good such Monies as shall be collected or levied and paid into the Hands of any Collector Receiver or Receivers by them to be nominated