River Dee, Chester Act 1698

VI. Application of Monies received by virtue of this Act.

Accounts of Collectors to be inspected by Corporation, to whom Collectors are to account.

And to the Intent that after such Allowances made all and every Summ and Summs of Money which shall be collected levied or received by vertue of this Act may be imployed for and towards the recovering and preserving the Navigation upon the said River Be it further 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 and they are hereby required from time to time to dispose of order and direct Payment of all and every Summ and Summs of Money ariseing by this Act for Materialls Workmens Wages or otherwise in such Manner and by such Proportions as they the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Councill shall think most expedient for and towards the recovering and preserving the Navigation upon the said River and alsoe to inspect and take Accounts of the Collections Receipts and Disbursements of all such Moneys 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 Moneys to be collected and received by vertue of this Act who are hereby required to render them a true Account thereof