Roads (Norfolk) Act 1695

V. Surveyors, at every Easter Sessions, to account.

Overplus paid to succeeding Surveyors.; Allowance to Surveyors.; Collectors or Surveyors not accounting and paying according to order, committed till Account and Payment be made.

And bee itt further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Surveyors and every of them att the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the said County to bee holden next after Easter in every yeare shall make and yeild upp unto the said Justices of Peace there to bee assembled a perfect Account in writeing under their Hands of all the Money which they or any of them have received from the said Collector or Receiver of Toll and likewise of all theire Disbursements in and about the said High way or otherwise by reason of theire Offices And in case any Overplus of Money soe received remaine in their Hands shall pay the same to the Surveyors to bee chosen for the yeare ensueing to bee disbursed and laid out in mending the said Road according to the true meaneing of this Act and not elsewhere Which said Justices to whom such Accompt shall bee given att the said Quarter Sessions shall out of the Benefitt of the said Toll make such Allowance unto the said Surveyors for and in consideration of theire Care and Paines taken in Execution of theire Offices and to such person or persons whoe have beene or shall bee assisting in and about procureing the said High way to bee amended as aforesaid by advanceing or laying out any Moneys or otherwise relateing thereto as to them shall seeme good And in case the Collector or Receiver of the aforesaid Toll soe to bee paid as aforesaid shall not upon request duely pay the same unto the said Surveyors for the tyme being soe to bee appointed as aforesaid or in case the said Surveyors or any of them shall not make such Account and Payment unto the severall person and persons according to the Order Direction and Appointment of the said Justices as aforesaid That then the said Justices att any Quarter Sessions to bee holden for the said County shall make Inquiry concerning such Default as well by Confession of the said parties themselves as by Testimony of One or more credible Witnesses upon Oath which Oath they are hereby impowered to administer And if any Person or Persons shall bee thereof convicted the said Justices upon such Conviction shall committ the party or parties soe convict to the Common Goale of the said County there to remaine without Baile or Mainprize untill hee or they shall have made a true and perfect Account and Payment as aforesaid.