London to Harwich Roads Act 1695

V. Surveyor to give Account yearly to Quarter Sessions next after Easter;

and to pay Overplus to Successor; Application thereof; Quarter Sessions to make Allowance to Surveyors and other Persons; Receiver of Toll not paying to Surveyor and Surveyor not accounting; Quarter Sessions may proceed, and on Conviction may commit Party to the Common Gaol.

And be it 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 be holden next after Easter in every Yeare shall make and yeild upp unto the said Justices of Peace there to be assembled a p[er]fect Account in Writing under their Hands of all the Moneys which they or any of them have received from the said Collector or Receiver of Toll and likewise of all their Disbursements in and about the said Highway or otherwise by reason of their Offices and in case any Overplus of Money so received remaine in theire Hands shall pay the same to the Surveyors to be chosen for the Yeare ensuing to be disbursed and laid out in mending the said Roads according to the true Meaning of this Acts and not elsewhere which, said Justices to whom such Account shall be 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 their Care and Pains taken in Execution of their Offices and to such other Person or Persons who have been or shall be assisting in and about procuring the said Highways to be amended as aforesaid by advancing or laying out any Moneys or otherwise relating thereto as to them shall seem good And in case the Collector or Receiver of the aforesaid Toll so to be paid as aforesaid shall not upon Request duely pay the same unto the said Surveyors for the time being so to be appointed as aforesaid or in case the said Surveyors or any of them shall not make such Account and Payment unto the several 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 be holden for the said County shall make Enquiry concerning such Default as well by Confession of the said Parties themselves as by Testimony of Two or more Credible Witnesses upon Oath which Oath they are hereby impowered to administer and if any Person or Persons shall be thereof convicted the said Justices upon such Conviction shall co[m]mitt the Party or Parties so convict to the Co[m]mon Gaol of the said County there to remaine without Bail or Mainprize until hee or they shall have made a true and perfect Account and Payment as aforesaid.