Bridlington Piers Act 1696

IV. Monies raised by this Act, after Allowance for Collection, to be laid out for repairing the said Pier.

A Book to be kept for entering all Monies received and paid; Quarter Sessions for the East Riding of Yorkshire once a Year, may inspect the Book, and make Order for the better Management of the Duties; Not observing such Orders,; Penalty.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every such Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money which shall be raised and received by the Duties aforesaid and recovered for any the Forfeitures in this Act appointed (other than so much thereof as shall be laid out or allowed for the collecting the said Duty not exceeding Six pence in the Pound) shall be by the said Arthur Lord Viscount Irwing Sir Griffith Boynton Sir Charles Hotham Sir William Strickland Sir William S^t. Quintin Sir Michael Wharton Sir Matthew Peirson Sir William Hustler Sir Richard Osbaldeston Ralph Wharton John Buck Robert Monckton Hugh Bethell Robert Bierly Charles Osborne and the Wardens of Trinity-house att Hull for the time being and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the Executors or Administrators of such Survivor applied and disposed unto the rebuilding repairing and amending the said Port or Peer of Bridlington al[ia]s Burlington and there shall from time to time be provided and kept by the said Arthur Lord Viscount Irwin Sir Griffith Boynton Sir Charles Hotham Sir William Strickland Sir William S^t. Quintin Sir Michael Wharton Sir Matthew Peirson Sir William Hustler Sir Richard Osbaldeston Ralph Wharton John Buck Robert Monckton Hugh Bethell Robert Bierly Charles Osborne and the Wardens of Trinity-house att Hull for the time being and the Survivors and Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor or by their Deputy or Deputies in that behalfe appointed one or more Books in which all Money to be received by virtue of this Act and all Payments and Disbursements out of the same shall from time to time be fairely sett downe and entred expressing the time when and the Name of the Person or Persons from or to whome the same were so received paid or disbursed and for what use or purpose such Payment or Disbursement was made and that once in every Yeare the Justices of Peace for the East-Riding of the County of York att their General Quarter Sessions for the said East-Riding shall & may if they see cause order the said Book or Books to be brought before them & shall and are hereby impowered to inspect the same and examine how the said Duties have been answered & imployed and upon any misimployment of the said Duties or any part thereof or other Miscarriage in any of the Officers or Persons intrusted or imployed in the collecting receiving paying disbursing or imploying any of the said Duties to make and give such Orders Rules and Directions for the better management and disposeing of the said Duties for the purpose aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act as they shall think most conducing to that end which Orders Rules & Directions shall be observed by all Persons conc[er]ned in such Receipt Payment or Management upon such Penalties not exceeding One hundred pounds as shall be sett by the said Justices to be levied upon the Goods and Chattells of the Offenders by Warrant from the said Justices.