River Dee, Chester Act 1698

V. Corporation may choose and displace Officers,

and are to take Security for executing Office Allowance to Collectors.

And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Councill in Common Councill assembled from time to time and as often as they shall think fitt during the said Terme of One and twenty Yeares to nominate choose putt in place displace or remove Collector Receiver Officer Overseer Workman or Labourer that shall be employed in any Worke or Imployment for recovering and preserving the Navigation upon the said River and to take reasonable Security in the Name of the said Mayor and Citizens from every such Collector Receiver or other Officer for the true and faithfull executing his or their Office in and about the Premisses according to the true Intent and Meaneing of this Act And the said Collector and Collectors Receiver and Receivers to be nominated and chosen as aforesaid shall from Time to Time be allowed for their Paines in executing the said Office out of their respective Receipts soe much as the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Councill in Common-Councill assembled shall think fitt not exceeding One Shilling in the Pound.